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src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190912034959im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/hodgkin-13170-portrait-medium.jpg" alt="Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin"/></noscript></picture> </a> </figure> <div class="content"> <h4 itemprop="name"> <a href="/web/20190912034959/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1964/hodgkin/" title="Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin" itemprop="url"> Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin </a> </h4> <span> <a href="/web/20190912034959/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1964/hodgkin/"> The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 </a> </span> <q itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation">for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.</q> </div> </article> <article class="laureate border-top" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <figure class="content-img"> <a href="/web/20190912034959/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1954/pauling/"> <picture><source 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Carl Pauling </a> </h4> <span> <a href="/web/20190912034959/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1962/pauling/"> The Nobel Peace Prize 1962 </a> </span> <br/> <br/> <span> <a href="/web/20190912034959/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1954/pauling/"> The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 </a> </span> <q itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation">for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances.</q> </div> </article> <article class="laureate border-top" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <figure class="content-img"> <a href="/web/20190912034959/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2016/sauvage/"> <picture><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20190912034959im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/sauvage-15210-portrait-mini-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 220px)"/><source 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</span> <q itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation">for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.</q> </div> </article> </section> <section class="article-grid var-one-third"> <header class="section-header border-top"> <h3>Other discoveries</h3> </header> <article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" class="article -one-third"> <div class="content-wrapper"> <header class="content"> <div class="title"> <h2 class="headline h3" itemprop="headline"> <a href="/web/20190912034959/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1903/arrhenius/biographical/"> Who first predicted global warming? </a> </h2> </div> </header> <div class="text"> <p>Learn more about Svante Arrhenius, who first made the connection between carbon dioxide levels and global temperature.</p> </div> </div> <figure class="featuredimage"> <a href="/web/20190912034959/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1903/arrhenius/biographical/"><picture><source 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