Episode 013 - Dorothy Crawfoot | Protein Crystallographer

Alternate Title: Crystal Math

Emlyn tells Emma about the founder of protein crystallography, Dr. Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin, and Emma tells Emlyn about how spiders use electric fields to balloon!

 

Sources:

Main Story - Dorothy Hodgkin

1. The Nobel Prize: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1964/hodgkin-bio.html
2. Royal Society of Chemistry: http://www.rsc.org/diversity/175-faces/all-faces/dorothy-hodgkin-om-frs/
3. Science History Institute: https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/dorothy-crowfoot-hodgkin
4. Ferry, Georgina. (2014) Dorothy Hodgkin: on proteins and patterns. The Lancet,Volume 384, Issue 9953, Pp. 1496-1497.
5. "Principles, Structure and Activities of Pugwash For the Eleventh Quinquennium (2007–2012)". https://web.archive.org/web/20030819053554/http:/www.pugwash.org/about/principles.htm
6. Dorothy Hodgkin and her contributions to biochemistry, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Nov 2013. http://link.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/apps/pub/2IIA/SCIC?u=txshracd2598&sid=SCIC.
7. 100 years of X-ray Crystallography. http://cen.xraycrystals.org/penicillin.html
8. Thatcher and Hodgkin: How chemistry overcame politics, BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-28801302

 

Women who werk

• Study: Erica L. Morley and Daniel Robert show that electric fields elicit spider ballooning behavior. Video and article in Current Biology: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218306936?via%3Dihub
• Article summarizing study’s findings: “The electric flight of spiders” by Ed Wong. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/

 

Music

“Work” by Rihanna

“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

“Bad Things” by Jace Everett