A blue plaque has been put up in honour of Dorothy Hodgkin (1947, Chemistry) at her former school in Beccles, Suffolk.

The plaque was presented by the Society of Biology at the Sir John Leman School, Beccles on Thursday, 12 March.

The story was reported in the Eastern Daily Press.

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