Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

University of Oxford

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1964)

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist. She was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances, including penicillin and vitamin B12. Her work advanced the field of X-ray crystallography.