Karl Barry Sharpless ‘63 Receives Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2001
Sharpless credited a Dartmouth professor for helping set the course of his life's work.
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Two and a half centuries of Dartmouth achievements, turning points, contributions, and leadership
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Fred Rogers '50 Delivers the Commencement Address
2002
"And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. We are intimately related. May we never even pretend that we are not."
Annette Gordon-Reed '81 Wins the Pulitzer Prize
2009
Gordon-Reed is a legal scholar and historian who graduated with high distinction from Dartmouth in 1981.
George Perkins Marsh, Class of 1820, Publishes "Man and Nature"
1864
“Man is everywhere a disturbing agent.”
Kyle Hendricks ’12 and the Chicago Cubs Go to the World Series
2016
Hendricks pitched the clinching the game of the 2016 National League Championship Series with 7.1 scoreless innings.
Shonda Rhimes ’91 Delivers a Lesson-Packed Commencement Address
2014
"Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams... But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen."
Owen Chamberlain ‘41 Wins the Nobel Prize in Physics
1959
At Dartmouth he won the prestigious Thayer Prize in Mathematics and the Kramer Fellowship, which funded his initial graduate studies at Berkeley.
First Clinical X-ray in America Performed
1896
The medical X-ray, like many inventions, is the result of different people working simultaneously on the same idea.
Reggie Williams ’76 Selected for College Football Hall of Fame
2007
Reggie Williams was one of the most conspicuous players in Dartmouth football annals since halfback Bob MacLeod was a consensus All-American in 1938.
The Founding of Thayer
1867
Sylvanus Thayer, Class of 1807, established an engineering school at his alma mater.
Daniel Webster, Class of 1801, Delivers Famous Senate Speech
1830
"Liberty and union, one and inseparable, now and forever!"
First Measles Vaccine Licensed
1963
Dr. Samuel Katz ‘48, DMS‘50 helped develop the vaccine with John Enders at Boston Children's Hospital.