Dorothy Mary Crowfoot #Hodgkin was an #English #biochemist and #X-ray crystallographer, born in C…
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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot #Hodgkin was an #English #biochemist and #X-ray crystallographer, born in Cairo, #Egypt to English parents, who was awarded the #NobelPrize for #Chemistry in 1964 for her discoveries, by the use of X-ray #techniques, of the #structure of #biologically important molecules, including #penicillin (1946), #vitamin B-12 (1956), and later, the protein #hormone #insulin (1969)..
Her achievements included not only these structure determinations and the #scientific insight they provided but also the #development of methods that made such structure determinations possible.
(One of her students was Margaret Roberts, later #MargaretThatcher, the only British #primeminister with a degree in science.)
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