Question
Margaret Thatcher worked in the lab of this scientist as an Oxford undergraduate, before abandoning science to focus on snatching milk from British children. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this scientist, who won a Nobel Prize for her usage of X-ray crystallography to elucidate the structure of biomolecules like penicillin.
ANSWER: Dorothy Hodgkin [or Dorothy Crowfoot or Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin]
[10e] In 1969, Hodgkin led a team that used X-ray crystallography to determine this molecule’s structure. Frederic Banting and Charles Best discovered this hormone, which people with type 1 diabetes cannot produce.
ANSWER: insulin
[10m] Hodgkin also determined the ring structure of vitamin B12, which has an atom of this transition metal at its center. This ferromagnetic element is also used in a namesake blue pigment.
ANSWER: cobalt [or Co; accept cobalt blue]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Notre Dame A | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |