In what year was Dorothy Hodgkin born?
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Dorothy Hodgkin was born in 1910. She was a British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on the structure of penicillin. Hodgkin was also known for her work on the structure of vitamin B12. She was a pioneer in the field of X-ray crystallography, which she used to determine the structures of many important biological molecules.
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