The Royal Society
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The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
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#OnThisDay in 1910, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin FRS was born. She won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using X-ray crystallography to solve the atomic structure of molecules such as penicillin and insulin, the only British woman scientist to have won a Nobel Prize.
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On the seventh day of #12DaysOfScience, science gave to me: a pioneer in entomology. Maria Sibylla Merian is considered one of the earliest entomologists and ecologists, and a renowned illustrator. Our video with @bbcideas tells her story, using animations based on her own work:
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Maria Sibylla Merian, naturalist and scientific illustrator, was born #OnThisDay in 1647. She collected insects and raised silkworms as a young girl, and was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly and document metamorphosis. Watch our video with @bbcideas:
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Vitamin B12 is the world's most expensive vitamin, and the scarcest one in the human body. As the world transitions to plant-based diets, B12 deficiency will rise. Finding ways to fortify food with B12 may help to keep people, as well as the planet, healthy. Find out more:
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