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"Would it not be better if one could really see whether molecules...were just as experiments suggested?"
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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was an English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and is the only British woman scientist to have been awarded a Nobel Prize.
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"I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important. Theres the moment when you know you can find out the answer and thats the period you are sleepless before you know what it is. When youve got it and know what it is, then you can rest easy."
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"Ones tendency when one is young is to do experiments just to see what will happen, without really looking for specific things at all. I first set up a little laboratory in the attic at home just to grow crystals or try experiments described in books, such as adding a lot of concentrated sulfuric acid to the blood from a nosebleed which precipitates hemotin from the hemoglobin in the blood. That was quite a nice experiment. I still remember it."
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