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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin] (1910-1994) was an eminent and ground-breaking crystallographer, who won the [[Nobel Prizes for 3D Molecular Structure|1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for X-ray ~~diffractin~~ work that included solving the structures of penicillin (1949<ref name="crowfoot-p" />) and vitamin B12 in the mid-1950's<ref name="crowfoot-v">PMID:13348621</ref>. She was 69th to win the Nobel in Chemistry, but only [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Chemistry the third woman to win it], after Marie Curie and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie<ref>In 2018, only one additional woman has won the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry], making four out of 177: Ada Yonath.</ref>. In 1945, she solved the structure of penicillin. The structure had been controversial prior to her work, published in 1949<ref name="crowfoot-p">PMID:18134678</ref>. In 1971, she was a member of the team solving the structure of insulin<ref name="crowfoot-i">PMID:4932997</ref>. The insulin structure was solved at the time the [[Protein Data Bank]] was being founded, and was not deposited until 1980 as 1ins, superceded by [[4ins]] in 1989<ref>[http://History.Molviz.Org See <i>Earliest Solutions for Macromolecular Crystal Structures</i> at History.MolviZ.Org].</ref>.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin] (1910-1994) was an eminent and ground-breaking crystallographer, who won the [[Nobel Prizes for 3D Molecular Structure|1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for pioneering X-ray diffraction work that included solving the structures of penicillin (1949<ref name="crowfoot-p" />) and vitamin B12 in the mid-1950's<ref name="crowfoot-v">PMID:13348621</ref>. She was 69th to win the Nobel in Chemistry, but only [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Chemistry the third woman to win it], after Marie Curie and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie<ref>In 2018, only one additional woman has won the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry], making four out of 177: Ada Yonath.</ref>. In 1945, she solved the structure of penicillin. The structure had been controversial prior to her work, published in 1949<ref name="crowfoot-p">PMID:18134678</ref>. In 1971, she was a member of the team solving the structure of insulin<ref name="crowfoot-i">PMID:4932997</ref>. The insulin structure was solved at the time the [[Protein Data Bank]] was being founded, and was not deposited until 1980 as 1ins, superceded by [[4ins]] in 1989<ref>[http://History.Molviz.Org See <i>Earliest Solutions for Macromolecular Crystal Structures</i> at History.MolviZ.Org].</ref>.

An excellent 4.5 minute video by Huy Do Duc (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Dresden) explains the science behind this model. The video is available at the [https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/backfromthedead/exhibition/the-structure-of-penicillin/ Museum of the History of Science] (Oxford, UK).

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-[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin] (1910-1994) was an eminent and ground-breaking crystallographer, who won the [[Nobel Prizes for 3D Molecular Structure|1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for X-ray diffractin work that included solving the structures of penicillin (1949<ref name="crowfoot-p" />) and vitamin B12 in the mid-1950's<ref name="crowfoot-v">PMID:13348621</ref>. She was 69th to win the Nobel in Chemistry, but only [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Chemistry the third woman to win it], after Marie Curie and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie<ref>In 2018, only one additional woman has won the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry], making four out of 177: Ada Yonath.</ref>. In 1945, she solved the structure of penicillin. The structure had been controversial prior to her work, published in 1949<ref name="crowfoot-p">PMID:18134678</ref>. In 1971, she was a member of the team solving the structure of insulin<ref name="crowfoot-i">PMID:4932997</ref>. The insulin structure was solved at the time the [[Protein Data Bank]] was being founded, and was not deposited until 1980 as 1ins, superceded by [[4ins]] in 1989<ref>[http://History.Molviz.Org See <i>Earliest Solutions for Macromolecular Crystal Structures</i> at History.MolviZ.Org].</ref>.
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin] (1910-1994) was an eminent and ground-breaking crystallographer, who won the [[Nobel Prizes for 3D Molecular Structure|1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for pioneering X-ray diffraction work that included solving the structures of penicillin (1949<ref name="crowfoot-p" />) and vitamin B12 in the mid-1950's<ref name="crowfoot-v">PMID:13348621</ref>. She was 69th to win the Nobel in Chemistry, but only [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Chemistry the third woman to win it], after Marie Curie and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie<ref>In 2018, only one additional woman has won the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry], making four out of 177: Ada Yonath.</ref>. In 1945, she solved the structure of penicillin. The structure had been controversial prior to her work, published in 1949<ref name="crowfoot-p">PMID:18134678</ref>. In 1971, she was a member of the team solving the structure of insulin<ref name="crowfoot-i">PMID:4932997</ref>. The insulin structure was solved at the time the [[Protein Data Bank]] was being founded, and was not deposited until 1980 as 1ins, superceded by [[4ins]] in 1989<ref>[http://History.Molviz.Org See <i>Earliest Solutions for Macromolecular Crystal Structures</i> at History.MolviZ.Org].</ref>.
 An excellent 4.5 minute video by Huy Do Duc (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Dresden) explains the science behind this model. The video is available at the [https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/backfromthedead/exhibition/the-structure-of-penicillin/ Museum of the History of Science] (Oxford, UK).