Time since the birth of chemist Dorothy Hodgkin

Time since the birth of chemist Dorothy Hodgkin (114 y)

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Time since the birth of chemist Dorothy Hodgkin (114 y)

  • is 1/100 of Time since the earliest farming (11,500 y)...more
  • is 1/40 of Time since building of the Great Pyramid of Giza / Cheops / Khufu (4,580 y)...more
  • is 1/20 of Time since the birth of Archimedes (2,300 y)...more
  • is 1/20 of Time since the birth of Eratosthenes (2,299 y)...more
  • is 1/20 of Time since start of building of the Great Pyramid of Cholula (2,250 y)...more
  • is 1/5 of Time since the birth of Leonardo da Vinci (572 y)...more
  • is 1/4 of Time since the birth of Shakespeare (460 y)...more
  • is 1/4 of Time since the birth of Galileo (457 y)...more
  • is about as big as Time since first Model T Ford launched (116 y)...more
  • is about as big as Time since the birth of Turing (112 y)...more
  • is 25 x Period of Ceres's orbit (4.6 y)...more

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