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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was the 1964 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.

Dorothy Hodgkin won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.

A British biochemist and crystallographer and the 1964 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for her determination by X-Ray techniques of the structures of biologically important molecules. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin used X-Rays to find the structural layouts of atoms and the overall molecular shape of over 100 molecules including: penicillin, vitamin B-12, vitamin D, and insulin.

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