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Quote by Dorothy Hodgkin

“I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.”

Quote by Dorothy Hodgkin

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Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Hodgkin was a British biochemist renowned for her contributions to X-ray crystallography. She won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work in elucidating the structures of complex biological molecules, becoming the first woman to receive the award. more

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