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Dorothy Hodgkin

1910 – 1994

Solved the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin by X-ray.

United Kingdom·ChemistryNobel

Primo Levi

1919 – 1987

Chemist whose Auschwitz testimony is the standard of moral witness.

Italy·Literature · Chemistry

Rosalind Franklin

1920 – 1958

Photographed the shape of the molecule that makes us.

United Kingdom·Chemistry · BiologyFull profile

Katalin Karikó

b. 1955

Demoted, defunded, and right: her mRNA work produced the COVID vaccines.

Hungary·Medicine · Biology · ChemistryNobelFull profile