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Dorothy Hodgkin blue plaque

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Dorothy Hodgkin blue plaque
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This blue commemorative plaque records: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS (1910-1994) led pioneering work in this building from 1956-1972 and elsewhere in Oxford on the structures of antibiotics, vitamins and proteins including penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin, using X-ray diffraction techniques for which she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. Recorded plaque organisation: Royal Society of Chemistry.

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