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Dorothy Hodgkin blue plaque

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This blue commemorative plaque records: Dorothy Hodgkin 1910-1994 biochemist and Nobel Laureate who determined the structure of penicillin and vitamin B12 studied at this school 1921-1928 Recorded plaque organisation: Society of Biology.
Dorothy Hodgkin was a pioneering biochemist awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her development of protein crystallography, which she used to determine the structures of penicillin and vitamin B12, significantly advancing medical science.

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