Dorothy Hodgkin wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1964 · Event
Honoured for determining the structures of biochemical substances by X-rays, Hodgkin becomes the third woman to win the chemistry prize and remains the only British woman to win a science Nobel.
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