biography
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Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary
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née Crowfoot
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| female
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| lived:
| (1910–94)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Cairo, Egypt. She studied at Oxford and Cambridge, became a research fellow at Somerville College, Oxford (1936–77), and research professor at the Royal Society (1960–77). A crystallographer of distinction, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 for her discoveries, by the use of X-ray techniques, of the structure of certain molecules, including penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin. |
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