"One's tendency when one is young is to do experiments just to see what will happen, without really looking for specific things at all. I first set up a little laboratory in the attic at home just to grow crystals or try experiments described in books, such as adding a lot of concentrated sulfuric acid to the blood from a nosebleed which precipitates hemotin from the hemoglobin in the blood. That was quite a nice experiment. I still remember it."
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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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