Boston in the Cold War
The atlas holds 35 people and 45 moments here, from 1947 to 1991. The most recorded lives are Isaac Asimov, Jorge Luis Borges and Helen Keller.
Notable people
Abebe Bikila
in 1963
1 moment here
Ethiopian marathon runner and Imperial Guard officer who won Olympic marathon gold in Rome in 1960 and Tokyo in 1964, both in world-record time.…
Ada Yonath
in 1970
1 moment here
Israeli crystallographer whose work on ribosome structure and function earned her a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
in 1978
1 moment here
Soviet and Russian novelist, essayist, historian, dissident, and Nobel laureate whose writings on Soviet political repression and the Gulag made him…
Allan MacLeod Cormack
from 1956 to 1957
2 moments here
South African-born American physicist and academic whose mathematical work helped establish computed tomography.…
Andy Warhol
in 1966
1 moment here
American artist and filmmaker whose work helped define Pop art. Born in Pittsburgh, Warhol studied there before moving to New York in 1949.…
Anthony Quinn
in 1977
1 moment here
Mexican-American actor, painter, sculptor, writer, and civil-rights supporter Anthony Quinn (Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) worked in film,…
Benazir Bhutto
in 1969
2 moments here
Pakistani political leader who served twice as prime minister, from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996.…
Benigno Aquino III
in 1981
1 moment here
Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III, known as Noynoy Aquino or PNoy, was a Filipino politician who served as president of the Philippines from 2010…
Bob Marley
in 1979
1 moment here
Jamaican singer, songwriter and guitarist whose work with the Wailers made reggae an international musical force.…
Carl Sagan
in 1963
1 moment here
American astronomer, planetary scientist, educator, author, and science communicator. Sagan studied at the University of Chicago, held appointments…
Chien-Shiung Wu
in 1964
1 moment here
Chinese-American experimental physicist whose career moved from Jiangsu and eastern China to California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York,…
Corazon Aquino
in 1982
1 moment here
María Corazón Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino was a Filipino political leader and president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992.…
Derek Walcott
in 1981
1 moment here
Saint Lucian poet, playwright, painter, and teacher who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.…
Dorothy Hodgkin
in 1965
1 moment here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Douglas Adams
in 1984
1 moment here
English author, screenwriter and humourist best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.…
Elizabeth Taylor
in 1983
1 moment here
British-American actress and HIV/AIDS activist. Born in London, Taylor moved to Southern California in 1939, became a major Hollywood star, worked…
Helen Keller
from 1955 to 1956
2 moments here
Helen Adams Keller was an American deafblind author, lecturer, disability-rights advocate, and political activist.…
Isaac Asimov
from 1949 to 1956
3 moments here
American writer and biochemist best known for science fiction, popular-science writing, and the Foundation and Robot series.…
Jacques Derrida
from 1956 to 1957
2 moments here
French philosopher, born Jackie Élie Derrida, associated with deconstruction. His career moved from Algeria and Paris to recurrent teaching and…
Jorge Luis Borges
from 1967 to 1968
2 moments here
Argentine writer, poet, essayist, translator, lecturer, librarian, and critic. Borges was born in Buenos Aires, lived in Switzerland and Spain during…
Judy Garland
from 1949 to 1967
2 moments here
American actress, singer, and vaudevillian, born Frances Ethel Gumm. Garland rose from childhood vaudeville and MGM musical films to become a major…
Kenzaburō Ōe
in 1965
1 moment here
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, Nobel laureate, and prominent pacifist and anti-nuclear campaigner.…
Kim Dae-jung
in 1983
1 moment here
South Korean politician, democracy activist, and eighth president of South Korea (1998–2003).…
Kofi Annan
in 1971
1 moment here
Ghanaian diplomat and statesman who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006.…
Moments
- 1947 Morris Gray Poetry Reading T. S. Eliot
- 1949 Speaks at MIT Winston Churchill
- 1949 Move to Boston Isaac Asimov
- 1949 Hospitalization in Boston Judy Garland
- 1949 Residence in Somerville Isaac Asimov
- 1951 Begins Boston University studies Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1952 Visiting lecturer at Harvard Walter Brattain
- 1955 Honorary degree at Harvard Helen Keller
- 1956 Sabbatical at Harvard Allan MacLeod Cormack
- 1956 Residence in West Newton Isaac Asimov
- 1956 Study year at Harvard Jacques Derrida
- 1956 Keller-Macy Cottage dedication Helen Keller
- 1957 Move to Tufts University Allan MacLeod Cormack
- 1957 Marriage in Boston Jacques Derrida
- 1958 Cutter Lecture at Harvard Macfarlane Burnet
- 1963 Harvard and Smithsonian appointment Carl Sagan
- 1963 Boston Marathon Abebe Bikila
- 1964 Speech on gender discrimination at MIT Chien-Shiung Wu
- 1965 Harvard summer seminar Kenzaburō Ōe
- 1965 Radcliffe College conversation P. L. Travers
- 1965 Week of lectures at MIT Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1966 Radcliffe College interview P. L. Travers
- 1966 Attends Institute of Contemporary Art survey opening Andy Warhol
- 1967 Norton Lectures at Harvard Jorge Luis Borges
- 1967 Free concert on Boston Common Judy Garland
- 1968 Continuation of Norton Lectures Jorge Luis Borges
- 1969 Begins undergraduate study at Harvard Benazir Bhutto
- 1969 Vietnam-war protest Benazir Bhutto
- 1969 Visiting lecturer at Harvard University Nadine Gordimer
- 1970 Second postdoctoral appointment at MIT Ada Yonath
- 1971 Management study at MIT Sloan Kofi Annan
- 1971 Cambridge visit Léopold Sédar Senghor
- 1974 Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard Octavio Paz
- 1977 The Red Devil Battery Sign in Boston Anthony Quinn
- 1978 Harvard commencement address Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- 1979 Amandla Festival headline performance Bob Marley
- 1981 Joined family in exile Benigno Aquino III
- 1981 Arrival at Boston University Derek Walcott
- 1982 Exile residence in Boston Corazon Aquino
- 1983 Visiting fellowship at Harvard Kim Dae-jung
- 1983 Private Lives pre-Broadway run Elizabeth Taylor
- 1984 Visited Infocom's Boston offices Douglas Adams
- 1987 Procter and Gamble Lecture Sydney Brenner
- 1990 Massey lectures at Harvard Toni Morrison
- 1991 Wellcome Visiting Professorship Sydney Brenner