When did Dorothy Hodgkin win her Nobel Prize?
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Dorothy Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on the structure of penicillin and vitamin B12. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and she is considered one of the most important chemists of the 20th century. Hodgkin's work on penicillin led to the development of a new class of antibiotics that have saved millions of lives.
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