Alphabetical Index Index by Year of Birth Nobel Prize Laureates
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
1964 Chemistry
* 1910 in Cairo
+ 1994 in Shipston-on-Stour/England
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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist
who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography
to determine the structure of biomolecules,
which became an essential tool in structural biology.
In 1964 she became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry,
having discovered the structure of vitamin B12.
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