Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was an English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and is the only British woman scientist to have been awarded a Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964, announced October 29, 1964. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, “for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances”. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: born 1910, Cairo, Egypt. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).