Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Category: Otro
Actualizado: 20 nov 2018
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Created byCharles Slattery
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5/12/1910: Dorothy is born1921: Dorothy attends Sir John Leman School1927: Dorothy graduates from Sir John Leman School1928: Dorothy attends Somerville College in Oxford1932: Dorothy graduates from Oxford and enters the University of Cambridge1933: Dorothy was awarded a two-year research fellowship by Somerville College1934: Dorothy returns to Oxford as a teacher and starts study on insulin1937: Dorothy receives her PhD1969: Dorothy solves the structure of insulin1955: Dorothy concludes research of Vitamin B121948: Dorothy begins research on Vitamin B121942: Dorothy starts research on penicillin with Edward Abraham1945: Dorothy solves structure of penicillin using crystallography1937: Dorothy marries Thomas Lionel Hodgkin1938: Dorothy's first child, Luke, is born1941: Elizabeth, second child, is born1946: Toby, last child, is born1953: Dorothy banned from USA due
to husband's involvement with communist parties. She was not a communist
but she had a concern for social
inequalities.7/28/1914: WWI Begins11/11/1918: WWI ends1926: Schroedinger's equation of Quantum Mechanics6/26/1920: Women are allowed to vote in USA9/1/1939: WWII Begins after German invades Poland10/17/1931: Notorious criminal, Al Capone, imprisoned9/2/1945: WWII Ends1/30/1948: Mahatma Gandhi is killedDec 1943: First computer, Colossus Mark 1, is invented during WWII1954: First polio vaccine passes testing on humans, contains penicillin7/17/1955: Disneyland opens1961: JFK commits to landing on moon by end of decade11/22/1963: JFK Assassinated7/20/1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the moon11/18/1978: Jonestown Massacre becomes deadliest
non-natural disaster event in US history until 9/119/5/1972: Munich Massacre at first Olympic event hosted in Germany post-WWII11/9/1989: Berlin wall removed5/18/1980: Mt. St Helens erupts, worst volcanic disaster
in US history7/24/1994: Dorothy dies1990: ARPAnet is replaced by NSFnet
(National Science Foundation Network),
forming the backbone for the modern internet1977: Dorothy retires
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