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'''Dorothy Mary Hodgkin''' was a British [[scientist]], born Dorothy Crowfoot in [[1910]]. She studied [[chemistry]] at Oxford and Cambridge universities, before becoming a research fellow at [[Somerville College, Oxford]] in [[1936]], a post which she held until [[1977]]. In [[1960]] she was appointed Wolfson Research Professor at the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1964]] she was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for her work in [[crystallography]]. She had, among other things, discovered the structure of [[penicillin]], [[vitamin B12]] and [[insulin]]. |
'''Dorothy Mary Hodgkin''' was a British [[scientist]], born Dorothy Crowfoot in [[1910]]. She studied [[chemistry]] at Oxford and Cambridge universities, before becoming a research fellow at [[Somerville College]], [[Oxford]] in [[1936]], a post which she held until [[1977]]. In [[1960]] she was appointed Wolfson Research Professor at the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1964]] she was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for her work in [[crystallography]]. She had, among other things, discovered the structure of [[penicillin]], [[vitamin B12]] and [[insulin]]. |
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Dorothy Mary Hodgkin was a British scientist, born Dorothy Crowfoot in 1910. She studied chemistry at Oxford and Cambridge universities, before becoming a research fellow at Somerville College, Oxford in 1936, a post which she held until 1977. In 1960 she was appointed Wolfson Research Professor at the Royal Society. In 1964 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in crystallography. She had, among other things, discovered the structure of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin.