Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in the 1920s.

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1. Sheril Kirshenbaum (sheril@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 15:00:04 JST Sheril Kirshenbaum

   Born in 1910, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin perfected X-ray crystallography, a type of imaging using X-rays to determine a molecule’s three-dimensional structure.

   She determined the structures of insulin, penicillin & vitamin B12, leading to tremendous advances in medicine.

   Hodgkin was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. She also advocated for world peace, campaigning against both the Vietnam War & nuclear weapons. https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/dorothy-hodgkin #HistoryRemix #science #history