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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin 1910-94, English chemist and X-ray crystallographer, b. Egypt. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for determining the structure of biochemical compounds (particularly of vitamin B ₁₂ ) used to control pernicious anemia. In 1933 she and J. D. Bernal made the first X-ray photograph of a protein (pepsin). She was president (1977-78) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot (1910–1994) British chemist; Nobel Prize 1964 for her work on determination of biological structures by X‐ray crystallography.

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