= Dorothy Hodgkin
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Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on crystallography, particularly for being the first to use X-ray crystallography to determine the structures of important biochemical substances. She is best known for her pioneering research on penicillin and vitamin B12, which contributed significantly to the understanding of molecular structures and had a lasting impact on the fields of chemistry and biochemistry.
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