Celebrate the trailblazing chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin the only British woman scientist to win a Nobel prize. She was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving the atomic structure of molecules such as penicillin and insulin, using Xray crystallography. Here are just a few reasons why she should be much better known than she is...

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