 According to the late Dr Beryl Oughton (married name, Rimmer), they drove to Cambridge in two cars after Hodgkin announced that they were off to see the model of the structure of DNA.Hodgkin became a Reader at Oxford in 1957 and she was given a fully modern laboratory the following year.In 1960, Hodgkin was appointed the Royal Society's Wolfson Research Professor, a position she held until 1970.