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Also Known As	Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin • Dorothy Mary Crowfoot
Born	May 12, 1910 • Cairo • Egypt
Died	July 29, 1994 (aged 84) • England
Awards And Honors	Copley Medal (1976) • Nobel Prize (1964)
Subjects Of Study	penicillin • pepsin • sterol • vitamin B₁₂
Role In	Pugwash Conferences

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Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.

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British physicist

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British chemist

R.B. Woodward, 1966.

Robert Burns Woodward

American chemist

Sir Robert Robinson.

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Klug, Aaron

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Baron Alexander Robertus Todd.

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Sir Henry Dale, 1956.

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