Join Principal Catherine Royle on 4th March 2025 as she welcomes alumni, students and friends to the annual Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture. This year, we are privileged to welcome for the event the noted science writer Georgina Ferry for her lecture entitled ‘An exemplary life: the scientific and humanitarian legacy of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin‘.
Georgina Ferry is a science writer, author and broadcaster. A former staff editor and feature writer on New Scientist, she has presented science programmes on BBC Radio. Her biography of Britain’s only female Nobel-prizewinning scientist, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Patterns, Proteins and Peace, was reissued by Bloomsbury in 2019. She has published further books on 20th and 21st-century science. Currently she edits obituaries for Nature and contributes reviews, obituaries and features to The Guardian, Nature and The Lancet. She lives in Oxford.
Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture 2026
Please register here to attend this free event, which is open to everyone.