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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin |
 | | In 1932 Dorothy Crowfoot graduated from Somerville College at Oxford with a degree in chemistry (her interest in chemistry and crystals began when she was young and was encouraged by her parents and their associates to develop this interest). |
| | Through this research, Bernal and Hodgkin were able to determine that "the arrangement of atoms inside the protein molecule is of a perfectly definite kind." They also determined that protein crystals should be studied with their mother liquid surrounding them and not air-dried as was the standard of the time. |
| | Hodgkin was able to determine that the insulin molecule is a six-part molecule; roughly triangular in shape, consisting of three pairs of molecules that enclose two zinc atoms within the core. |
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