Dorothy Hodgkin Quotes

• La química y los cristales me atraparon de por vida.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Science, Biographies, Crystals

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• I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important. There's the moment when you know you can find out the answer and that's the period you are sleepless before you know what it is. When you've got it and know what it is, then you can rest easy.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Discovery, Two, Important

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• No quisiera dar la impresión de que todos los problemas estructurales pueden resolverse con el análisis de rayos X o que todas las estructuras cristalinas son fáciles de resolver. Parece que he pasado mucho más tiempo de mi vida sin resolver estructuras que resolviéndolas.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Rays, Analysis, Crystals

  Dorothy Hodgkin (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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• Una gran ventaja del análisis de rayos X como método de análisis de estructuras químicas es su poder para mostrar alguna estructura totalmente inesperada y sorprendente con, al mismo tiempo, total certeza.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Rays, Analysis, Unexpected

  Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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• The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Molecules, Geometry, Complexity

  Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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• I used to say the evening that I developed the first x-ray photograph I took of insulin in 1935 was the most exciting moment of my life. But the Saturday afternoon in late July 1969, when we realized that the insulin electron density map was interpretable, runs that moment very close.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Running, July, Rays

  Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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• Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Molecules, Complicated, Experiments

  Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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• Conocí el tema de la difracción de rayos X de los cristales en las páginas del libro que W. H. Bragg escribió para escolares en 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Niños, Libro, Escuela

  Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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