Complex sentence: He took a degree in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1943 and joined the Vedanta Society monastery in San Francisco in 1944, becoming a monk of the Ramakrishna Order.
Split into simpler sentences: He took a degree in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1943. That same year Dobson joined the Vedanta Society monastery in San Francisco, becoming a monk of the Ramakrishna Order.