Who is referred to as "Dorothy Hodgkin" by the Royal Society?
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
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Dorothy Hodgkin was a British biochemist who is best known for her work on the structure of penicillin. She won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on the structure of vitamin B12. The Royal Society refers to her as "Dorothy Hodgkin" because her maiden name was Crowfoot.
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