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
Léopold Sédar Senghor
in 1971
1 moment here
Senegalese poet, theorist of Négritude, and statesman who became Senegal’s first president in 1960.…
Macfarlane Burnet
in 1958
1 moment here
Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Martin Luther King Jr.
in 1951
1 moment here
American Baptist minister and civil-rights leader who advanced racial equality through nonviolent protest.…
Nadine Gordimer
in 1969
1 moment here
South African novelist, short-story writer, and anti-apartheid activist whose work examined apartheid, race, power, and moral responsibility.…
Octavio Paz
in 1974
1 moment here
Mexican poet, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose international postings and teaching appointments connected Mexico City, the United States, Europe,…
P. L. Travers
from 1965 to 1966
2 moments here
Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…
Sydney Brenner
from 1987 to 1991
2 moments here
South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…
Toni Morrison
in 1990
1 moment here
Toni Morrison (Chloe Ardelia Wofford) was an American novelist, editor, and professor whose career moved through Ohio, Washington, D.C., New York,…
T. S. Eliot
in 1947
1 moment here
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a St. Louis-born poet, critic, editor, and playwright who studied in Massachusetts, Paris, Germany, and Oxford before making…
Walter Brattain
in 1952
1 moment here
American experimental physicist and co-inventor of the point-contact transistor. Brattain’s documented life moved from his birth in Amoy, China,…
Winston Churchill
in 1949
1 moment here
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) was a British soldier, journalist, author and statesman whose career ranged from imperial campaigns in…