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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin |
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1910-1994 From: Egypt, United Kingdom Fields: Chemistry Key Words/Phrases: Nobel Prize Winner, X-ray crystallography |
| Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot (1910-1994), British chemist and Nobel laureate, best known for her use of X-ray diffraction to study the structure of macromolecules. She was born in Cairo, and educated at Somerville College, University of Oxford. In 1960 she was named a research professor of the Royal Society. She was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for determining the structure of biochemical compounds essential in combating pernicious anemia. "Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot" Microsoft® Encarta. Copyright© 1995 Microsoft Corporation. |
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