The exceptional life of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | The Royal Society
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Celebrating the trailblazing chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - the only British woman scientist to have won a Nobel prize. This is our latest collaboration with BBC Ideas.
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Find out about how Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin's hands have been immortalised in the Royal Society's picture archive: https://royalsociety.org/blog/2021/09/sleight-of-hand/
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