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Dorothy Hodgkin (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

Wikipedia's biography of Dorothy Hodgkin, the English chemist who used X-ray crystallography to determine the three dimensional structures of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin.

Facts
Publisher
Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin
Source Type
reference
Reliability Tier
3
A community edited tertiary reference, used here for uncontested biographical facts, cross-checked during research against the volume and page numbers of the 1969 insulin structure paper it describes and against independent secondary accounts of her 1964 Nobel Prize citation.
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Dorothy Hodgkin (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)

This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 1 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Scientists, 7 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 connected, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.

Well-attested

9

Scientists

Holds

1

Scientists

Connected

1

Scientists

General References

1

Scientists

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