Dorothy Hodgkin
1910 – 1994 · United Kingdom · Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1964
Solved the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin by X-ray.
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Inherited from1
- Dmitri Mendeleev
1834 – 1907 · Chemistry
Periodicity underwrites the structural chemistry Hodgkin resolved by X-ray.
Passed the work to1
- Ada Yonath
1939 · Chemistry, Biology
Hodgkin's protein crystallography is the method Yonath extended to the ribosome.
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