Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture 2024

The annual Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture is a much-awaited feature of the Somerville year. First established in 1999 under the Principalship of Dame Fiona Caldicott, it provides an opportunity to celebrate Dorothy Hodgkin’s scientific and humanitarian legacy with a lecture from today’s leading scientists. On Friday 8th March, we were privileged to welcome as speaker for this year's Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture Professor Irene Tracey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Part of the long tradition of ground-breaking women scientists at Oxford, Prof Tracey was the ideal speaker at a lecture commemorating not only 60 years since Dorothy Hodgkin received her Nobel Prize for Chemistry, but also International Women’s Day, which fell on the same day.