July 29, 1994 - Death of Dorothy Hodgkin, who made enormous advances in crystallography and X-ray diffraction
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin is one of the pioneers in the field of X-ray crystallography of biomolecules, an essential tool in the fields of structural biology, biochemistry, and biomedicine. She made tremendous advances in crystallography and X-ray diffraction, a technique used to determine the three-dimensional structure of molecules. Among her most relevant discoveries is the confirmation of the structure of penicillin, the structure of vitamin B12 - work for which she became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - and, in 1969, Dorothy deciphered the structure of insulin.
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