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Penicillin

The chemical structure of penicillin was first proposed

1942
Oxford, England, United Kingdom

The chemical structure of penicillin was first proposed by Edward Abraham in 1942 and was later confirmed in 1945 using X-ray crystallography by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who was also working at Oxford. She later received the Nobel prize for this and other structure determinations.


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