Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot (1910-94). (1) Autograph manuscript signed of her closing address to the 1983 Pugwash Conference, corrected throughout in Hodgkin's hand. August 31, 1983. 4ff. 298 x 211 mm. Small rust-marks from paper clip on first and last leaves. (2) Photograph of a group including Hodgkin, Linus Pauling, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the mayor of Hiroshima, taken at Hiroshima in 1988. 83 x 116 mm. Signed and annotated by Hodgkin.

Signed manuscript in the hand of Nobel Laureate Dorothy Hodgkin, who received the 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work on determining, by X-ray diffraction techniques, the molecular structures of penicillin, vitamin B-12, insulin and other important biochemical compounds. Hodgkin was the first Englishwoman to receive the Nobel Prize in chemistry and the third woman overall, following Marie Curie and IrÃ¨ne Joliot-Curie.

Hodgkin involved herself in a wide range of humanitarian and peace-promoting causes, and actively sought to curb the destructive uses of science by the military. From 1976 to 1988 she served as the President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international organization of scientists, scholars and public figures working toward reducing the danger of armed conflict. Her closing address for the 1983 Pugwash Conference, held that year in Venice, Italy, looks back at the previous 25 years of the organization's efforts "to prevent the worst catastrophe so far," and describes the current meeting's discussions on arms control, disarmament and other pressing concerns:…

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