Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

5/12/1910: Dorothy is born

1921: Dorothy attends Sir John Leman School

1927: Dorothy graduates from Sir John Leman School

1928: Dorothy attends Somerville College in Oxford

1932: Dorothy graduates from Oxford and enters the University of Cambridge

1933: Dorothy was awarded a two-year research fellowship by Somerville College

1934: Dorothy returns to Oxford as a teacher and starts study on insulin

1937: Dorothy receives her PhD

1969: Dorothy solves the structure of insulin

1955: Dorothy concludes research of Vitamin B12

1948: Dorothy begins research on Vitamin B12

1942: Dorothy starts research on penicillin with Edward Abraham

1945: Dorothy solves structure of penicillin using crystallography

1937: Dorothy marries Thomas Lionel Hodgkin

1938: Dorothy's first child, Luke, is born

1941: Elizabeth, second child, is born

1946: Toby, last child, is born

1953: 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 Begins

11/11/1918: WWI ends

1926: Schroedinger's equation of Quantum Mechanics

6/26/1920: Women are allowed to vote in USA

9/1/1939: WWII Begins after German invades Poland

10/17/1931: Notorious criminal, Al Capone, imprisoned

9/2/1945: WWII Ends

1/30/1948: Mahatma Gandhi is killed

Dec 1943: First computer, Colossus Mark 1, is invented during WWII

1954: First polio vaccine passes testing on humans, contains penicillin

7/17/1955: Disneyland opens

1961: JFK commits to landing on moon by end of decade

11/22/1963: JFK Assassinated

7/20/1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the moon

11/18/1978: Jonestown Massacre becomes deadliest non-natural disaster event in US history until 9/11

9/5/1972: Munich Massacre at first Olympic event hosted in Germany post-WWII

11/9/1989: Berlin wall removed

5/18/1980: Mt. St Helens erupts, worst volcanic disaster in US history

7/24/1994: Dorothy dies

1990: ARPAnet is replaced by NSFnet (National Science Foundation Network), forming the backbone for the modern internet

1977: Dorothy retires