SteemAlive Presents: "5 days Writing Challenge entitled Genius" . Contest Prize: 51 Steem day 3 by @jovita30
We are here for Day 3. And just as day 1 and 2 has been very interesting day 3 would not be an exception.
Wel am still you wonderful and beautiful host @jovita30 , pls allow me take you on this sweet sail of genius discovery.
Our genius of study to is a female by name Dorathy Crowfoot Hodgkin.
Instruduction
I had been discussing the male previously and today, i have decided to bring down to my gender.
Yes female can been genius too, infact we have tons of them.
Like we said early this guys are with abilities that can be said to be supernatural.
Infact that posses and amazing IQ that is ussually above 100
Dorathy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Early Life
She was born in Egypt Cairo in 1910, she was the eldest Daugther. Her father John Winter Crowfoot worked with the minister of Education and they would always travel every year to escape the hot wealther of Egypt, To them Egpyt is all conducive during winter.
At Age four she and her younger siblings where left with their grandparents In England near Worthing. Mr and Mrs Hodgkins left there kids and returned to Egypt and later relocated to south Sudan.
In 1921 her father enrolled her into Sir John Leman Grammar School (Beccles England).
She was among the two girls allowed to study chemistry.
She only visited her father once when she was 13 in Sudan.
what influenced her field of study
One year later her counsin charles Harington recommeded to her parent that she goes to D.S Parsons Fundamentals.
In 1928 she moved to live with her Dad who had retired as a principal and now works as Director of the British school of Archaeology in jerusalem.
She began to work with her parent in Jordan then it was called Jerash.
She documented the patterns of mosaics from multiple Byzantine -era churches from 5th to 6th centuries.
When she was done with her drwaing, she began her studies at Oxfird and also she took up the responsibility of conducting chemical analyses of glass tesserae from the site where her parent worked.
Her attention to details was out of this wolrd, this made her create a precise scale drawing of those mosaics. This helped her in recognising patterns in chemistry.
She was given a book on X-ray crystallography by her mother on her 16th birthday.
marriage and children
She got married to thomas Lionel Hodgkin in 1937 and they had 3 kids
- luke Lionel Hodgkin
- Elizabeth Lionel Hodgkin
- Toby Lionel Hodgkin
works and achievements
steroid structure She diacovered the the 3 biomolecular structure . In 1945 she made the first publication of cholesteryl Iodide
penicillin structure
vitamin B12 structure
insulin structure
All this made discoveries made way for todays medicine.
Her life challenges
At age 24 she was diagnosed of rheumatoid arthritis which became progressively worse with time. She became crippled over the years. Though her legs where deformed but her brains where active until death in july 1994.
why I choose her
Just like other, she never allowed her physical condition stop her.
secondly i wanted to say that our parent should learn from her parents, when you notice your childs talent don't kill it, encourage. Expose her to things that would her in improve in her desired career and not things that are not of any value.
I'm gaining a lot, seeing a lady with a physical challenge but still achieve her dream, this is exceptional is something that one have to amulet.
I love her already…. Not allowing her physical challenge compromise her ambition is a very bold step
There’s a popular quote that says ;
..and neither should our shortcomings in life. Best of luck @jovita30
Africa has many great men and women, worthy to be labeled as genius. Sometimes I even forget to add Egypt in my imaginative African actualization.
Thank you for remembering this woman from Egypt