C G Dodson, J P Glusker, S Ramaseshan and
K Venkatesan (Eds.)
The Collected Works of Dorothy Hodgkin
A publication of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Three volumes)
ISBN 81-7296-020-4
645 pages
Hard bound edition

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was the recipient of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Professor Hodgkin was considered one of the most outstanding crystallographers in the world. She had acquired great renown through her many years of work in the structures of complex molecules of X-ray method and played a major role in the understanding if biological functions through molecular structures. All the molecules she chose to study were to great interest to health care. She was the first to study the structure of cholesterol and its compounds. She solved the structure of Pencillin, Vitamin B12 and Insulin. The collected works are in three volumes. These include her papers on:
a) General Crystallography
b) Steroids
c) Pencillin and related antibiotics
d) Vitamin B12 and Corrins
e) Insulin and protein structures

It also contains her Nobel Lecture and her biographical memories by J D Bernal and Katjeen Lonsdale.