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

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
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." 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.

Dr. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dr. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a chemist, crystallographer and humanitarian - a biography by Linda Cohen.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
A biography on the founder of protein crystallography.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994)
Obituary - reprinted from Physics Today.

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