"#Nobel laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was born 116 years ago today.

[doktrock@toad.social]

"#Nobel laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was born 116 years ago today. The legend among legends in #crystallography, she cracked the 27 atom structure of penicillin, and then the 181 atom structure of vitamin B12, and THEN the 788 atom structure of insulin. "
See "Monarch of Crystallography: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin ..."
(From The Women in Science Archive)

https://www.wisarchive.com/post/monarch-of-crystallography-dorothy-crowfoot-hodgkin-and-the-structure-of-large-molecules