Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin And Asteroid 5422 Hodgkin - Oxford, UK - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

In this case the subject of the plaque, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin has had an asteroid named after her.

The text on the plaque is as follows.

Royal Society
OF CHEMISTRY

National Chemical Landmark

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
OM FRS
(1910-1994)
Led pioneering work in this building from 1956-1972
and elsewhere in Oxford on the structures of
antibiotics, vitamins and proteins including
penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin, using
X-ray diffraction techniques for which she
received the Nobel Prize in Chemsitry
in 1964.

6 May 2014

This section of her Wikipedia page lists her honours including having the asteroid named after her.

"Hodgkin won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and as of 2016 remained the only British woman scientist to have been awarded a Nobel Prize in any of the three sciences it recognises. In 1965 she was only the second woman and the first in almost 60 years, after Florence Nightingale in 1907, to be appointed to the Order of Merit. She was the first and, as of 2019, remains the only woman to receive the prestigious Copley Medal.

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1947 and EMBO Membership in 1970., Hodgkin was Chancellor of the University of Bristol from 1970 to 1988. In 1958, she was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1966, she was awarded the Iota Sigma Pi National Honorary Member for her significant contribution.

She became a foreign member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the 1970s. In 1982 she received the Lomonosov Medal of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and in 1987 she accepted the Lenin Peace Prize from the government of Mikhail Gorbachev. The communist government of Bulgaria awarded her its Dimitrov Prize.

An asteroid (5422) discovered on 23 December 1982 by L.G. Karachkina (at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, M.P.C. 22509, in the USSR) was named "Hodgkin" in her honour.

In 1983, Hodgkin received the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art."

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