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Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot
(Encyclopedia) Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, 1910–94, English chemist and X-ray crystallographer, b. Egypt. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for determining the structure of…Dorothy Fosdick Biography
Dorothy FosdickAge: 83 foreign policy expert who helped in creation of United Nations, the Marshall Plan, and NATO, in the 1940s. Died: Feb. 5, 1997.Leon Forrest1997 DeathsFrances Foster…Dorothy Height Biography
civil rights activistBorn: 3/24/1912Died: 4/20/2010Best Known as: president of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) Dorothy Height helped shape and guide the…Dorothy Lamour Biography
Dorothy Lamour (Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton)actressBorn: 12/10/1914Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana Best known for her roles in the Road movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, Lamour, with her…Dorothy McGuire Biography
Dorothy McGuireactressBorn: 6/14/1919Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska Dorothy McGuire made her stage debut at the age of 13 (opposite a young Henry Fonda) in A Kiss For Cinderella in her hometown of Omaha…Dorothy Day Biography
Dorothy Daysocial activist, journalist, and cofounder of the Catholic Worker movementBorn: 1897Birthplace: New York, N.Y. From 1914 to 1916, Day attended the University of Illinois, where she joined…Dorothy Rabinowitz Biography
Dorothy Rabinowitzeditor, commentator After earning a BA from Queen College in New York City, Rabinowitz studied at New York University while teaching English at NYU and at Pratt Institute.…Dorothy Thompson Biography
Dorothy Thompson journalistBorn: 1893Birthplace: Lancaster, New York She became a suffragist while attending Syracuse University, where she earned an AB degree in 1914. After World War I, Thompson…Dorothy Kingsley Biography
Dorothy KingsleyscreenwriterBorn: 10/14/1909Birthplace: New York City While bedridden with measles as a young divorced mother of three, Dorothy Kingsley proclaimed that she could write better…Leavis, Q. D.
(Encyclopedia) Leavis, Q. D. (Queenie Dorothy Leavis), 1906–81, British literary critic; wife of F. R. Leavis. After studying at Cambridge, she wrote Fiction and the Reading Public (1932), which…Trending
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