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Dorothy Hodgkin Quotes

1910–1994 England

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS (May 12, 1910 – July 29, 1994) was a British chemist, credited with the discovery of protein crystallography.

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Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules...were just as experiments suggested?

I became captivated by the edifices chemists had raised through experiment and imagination—but still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really “see” whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested.

There's the moment when you know you can find out the answer and that's the period you are sleepless before you know what it is. When you've got it and know what it is, then you can rest easy.

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