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Dorothy Hodgkin is best known for her work with which technique?

  • Radiotherapy

  • X-ray crystallography

  • Microscopy

  • Nanotechnology

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Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on the structure of penicillin. She is best known for her work with X-ray crystallography, a technique that uses X-rays to study the structure of crystals. Hodgkin used X-ray crystallography to determine the structures of a number of important molecules, including penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.
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