Timeline for Jack Dunitz
| 1923 | Jack David Dunitz is born on March 29 in Glasgow, Scotland to William and Mildred
Dunitz. |
| 1944 | Dunitz graduates from Glasgow University with a bachelor of science degree. |
| 1946 | Dunitz accepts a position as research fellow at the Chemical Crystallography Laboratory
at Oxford University. |
| 1947 | Dunitz earns his Ph.D. at Glasgow University under the supervision of J. Monteath
Robertson. |
| 1948 | The California Institute of Technology employs Dunitz as an A. A. Noyes Research Fellow. |
| 1951 | Dunitz returns to Oxford University as a research fellow in the Chemical Crystallography
Laboratory. |
| 1953 | After completing his work at Oxford, Dunitz returns to the California Institute of
Technology for a second A. A. Noyes Research Fellowship. Jack Dunitz and Barbara Steuer are married on August 11, 1953 at Den Hague, Holland. |
| 1954 | Dunitz serves as a visiting scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda,
Maryland. |
| 1955 | Marguerite Dunitz, Jack and Barbara's first child, is born on May 14, 1955 in Bethesda,
Maryland. |
| 1956 | Dunitz takes a position as Senior Research Fellow at the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory
at The Royal Institution in London. |
| 1957 | Julia Dunitz, Jack and Barbara's second child, is born on April 15, 1957 in London,
England. Dunitz assumes a position as Professor of Chemical Crystallography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 1964 | Dunitz is promoted to full Professor of Chemical Crystallography at the Swiss Institute
of Technology. |
| 1968 | Dunitz accepts an Overseas Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge. |
| 1974 | Dunitz is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. |
| 1977 | Dunitz is awarded the Centenary Medal from the Chemical Society in London. |
| 1979 | Dunitz is appointed Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. That same year, Dunitz is named a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. |
| 1980 | Dunitz is honored as the 1980 Havinga Lecturer by the University of Leiden. |
| 1981 | Dunitz is named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. |
| 1985 | Dunitz receives the Tishler Award at Harvard University. |
| 1986 | The Swiss Chemical Society awards Dunitz with the Paracelsus Prize. |
| 1988 | Dunitz becomes a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. |
| 1989 | Dunitz joins the Academia Europaea. That same year, Dunitz is awarded the Bijvoet Medal by the University of Utrecht. |
| 1990 | After thirty-three years of service to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
Dunitz retires. In due course, Dunitz receives an honorary doctorate from the Israel Institute of Technology, becomes an Honorary Member of the Swiss Society of Crystallography and receives the Gregori Aminoff Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. |
| 1991 | Dunitz joins the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. That same year, Dunitz receives the Buerger Award from the American Crystallographic Association. |
| 1992 | The Weizmann Institute of Science awards Dunitz with an honorary Ph. D. |
| 1997 | Dunitz is appointed Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and also joins the American Philosophical Society as a Foreign Member. The American Chemical Society likewise awards Dunitz with the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award. |
| 1999 | Dunitz receives an honorary doctorate of science from Glasgow University. |
| 2000 | Dunitz becomes an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. |
| 2004 | The Swiss Chemical Society appoints Dunitz as Honorary Member. |
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