Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture 2026 - An exemplary life: the scientific and humanitarian legacy of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

An exemplary life: the scientific and humanitarian legacy of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Georgina Ferry is a science writer, author and broadcaster. A former staff editor and feature writer on New Scientist, she has presented science programmes on BBC Radio. Her biography of Britain’s only female Nobel-prizewinning scientist, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Patterns, Proteins and Peace, was reissued by Bloomsbury in 2019. She has published further books on 20th and 21st-century science. Currently she edits obituaries for Nature and contributes reviews, obituaries and features to The Guardian, Nature and The Lancet. She lives in Oxford.