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    How much do you know about Illustrious Women of Science?

    Which English chemist and physicist, known for her work in X-ray crystallography, was instrumental in determining the structure of penicillin and vitamin B12?

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    Dorothy HodgkinCorrect
    Marie Curie
    Irène Joliot-Curie
    Stephanie Kwolek

    Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her determinations of structures of important biochemical substances.