How many women won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry before Hodgkin?
Five
None
Two
One
Answer
Before Dorothy Hodgkin, two women had won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Marie Curie in 1911 for her work on radioactivity, and Irène Joliot-Curie in 1935 for her work on artificial radioactivity.
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