"I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important. 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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Dorothy Hodgkin
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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