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Georgina Ferry is an Oxford-based science writer, and author of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: A Life (Granta 1998, reissued by Bloomsbury Reader 2014). In this guest blog post she discusses Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s work, the complicated process of drawing 3D structures as 2D figures and a computer programme called Pluto.  ** In 2015 the Bodleian Library ... [Read more...]

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]]> https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs/blessed-plot-inside-mhs-blog/feed/ 0 Robyn Haggard 1594 Penicillin productions https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/insidemhs/penicillin-productions/ Wed, 21 Jan 2015 13:01:59 +0000 https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/mhs/?p=927 Penicillin may well have saved your life. This ‘yellow magic’, as it was first known, is an antibiotic wonder-drug of a type we now take for granted. But when penicillin was first being developed and refined, here in Oxford around the time of the Second World War, its healing properties were little short of miraculous. As ... [Read more...]

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