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"I used to say the evening that I developed the first x-ray photograph I took of insulin in 1935 was the most exciting moment of my life. But the Saturday afternoon in late July 1969, when we realized that the insulin electron density map was interpretable, runs that moment very close."
'X Rays and the Structure of Insulin', British Medical Journal, 1971

Happy Birthday Dorothy Hodgkin!

More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1964/hodgkin/biographical/

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