 At the age of 73, Hodgkin wrote a foreword to the English edition of "Stereospecific Polymerization of Isoprene", published by Robert Maxwell as the work of Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romania's communist dictator.Hodgkin wrote of the author's "outstanding achievements" and "impressive" career.Following the overthrow of Ceausescu during the Romanian Revolution of 1989, it was revealed that Elena Ceausescu had neither finished secondary school nor attended university.