Boston in the Space Age
The atlas holds 40 people and 53 moments here, from 1957 to 2016. The most recorded lives are Sydney Brenner, Jorge Luis Borges and Benazir Bhutto.
Notable people
Kenzaburō Ōe
from 1965 to 2001
2 moments here
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, Nobel laureate, and prominent pacifist and anti-nuclear campaigner.…
Kim Dae-jung
from 1983 to 2008
2 moments 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.…
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…
Mario Vargas Llosa
in 1992
1 moment here
Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and political figure. Vargas Llosa lived and worked across Peru, Bolivia, Spain, France, the United Kingdom,…
Maryam Mirzakhani
from 1999 to 2003
2 moments here
Iranian mathematician whose work transformed the study of hyperbolic surfaces, moduli spaces, and dynamics.…
Mercedes Sosa
in 1995
1 moment here
Argentine folk singer and leading exponent of the nuevo cancionero movement, internationally known for interpreting Latin American popular song and…
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.…
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
in 2001
1 moment here
South Vietnamese army officer and politician who led South Vietnam as chairman of the National Leadership Committee from 1965 and as president from…
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.…
Stephen Hawking
in 2016
1 moment here
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author whose work on singularities, black-hole thermodynamics, and Hawking radiation reshaped modern…
Steve Jobs
in 1997
1 moment here
Steven Paul Jobs was an American entrepreneur, inventor, and executive who co-founded Apple, founded NeXT, and led Pixar.…
Sydney Brenner
from 1987 to 1995
3 moments here
South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…
Toni Morrison
from 1990 to 2016
2 moments here
Toni Morrison (Chloe Ardelia Wofford) was an American novelist, editor, and professor whose career moved through Ohio, Washington, D.C., New York,…
Moments
- 2014 Former neighborhood visit Benigno Aquino III
- 2016 Norton Lecture at Harvard Toni Morrison
- 2016 Morris Loeb Lecture at Harvard Stephen Hawking