Where did Dorothy Hodgkin did her groundbreaking research?
Somerville College
King's College London
Oxford
Cambridge
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Dorothy Hodgkin was a chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on the structure of penicillin. She was born in London in 1910 and studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1934, she began working on the structure of penicillin, and in 1945, she published a paper that proposed the correct structure for the molecule.
The Extraordinary Journey of Dorothy Hodgkin: A Trailblazer in Chemistry
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