Cambridge in the Cold War
The atlas holds 19 people and 27 moments here, from 1947 to 1988. The most recorded lives are Douglas Adams, Sydney Brenner and Stephen Hawking.
Notable people
Abdus Salam
from 1953 to 1988
2 moments here
Pakistani theoretical physicist and 1979 Nobel Prize laureate whose career connected education in Punjab and Cambridge with professorships in Lahore…
Alan MacDiarmid
in 1954
1 moment here
New Zealand-American chemist and 2000 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, known for co-developing conductive polymers.…
Alan Turing
in 1947
1 moment here
English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computing pioneer. Turing studied at Cambridge and Princeton, worked at Bletchley Park during the…
Allan MacLeod Cormack
in 1947
1 moment here
South African-born American physicist and academic whose mathematical work helped establish computed tomography.…
Dorothy Hodgkin
in 1953
1 moment here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Douglas Adams
from 1952 to 1974
3 moments here
English author, screenwriter and humourist best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.…
Hideki Yukawa
in 1962
1 moment here
Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…
John Eccles
in 1965
1 moment here
Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher John Carew Eccles (1903–1997) was a Nobel laureate noted for research on synaptic transmission.…
Lars Onsager
in 1951
1 moment here
Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist whose career took him from Norway and Switzerland to major American universities.…
Lee Kuan Yew
in 1947
1 moment here
Singaporean barrister and statesman who co-founded the People’s Action Party and served as Singapore’s first prime minister from 1959 to 1990.…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
from 1950 to 1951
2 moments here
Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…
Manmohan Singh
in 1957
1 moment here
Indian economist, academic, civil servant, finance minister and prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014.…
Mario Vargas Llosa
in 1977
1 moment here
Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and political figure. Vargas Llosa lived and worked across Peru, Bolivia, Spain, France, the United Kingdom,…
Maurice Wilkins
in 1978
1 moment here
New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Octavio Paz
in 1969
1 moment here
Mexican poet, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose international postings and teaching appointments connected Mexico City, the United States, Europe,…
Rajiv Gandhi
from 1962 to 1965
2 moments here
Rajiv Gandhi was an Indian aircraft pilot and politician who served as prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989.…
Stephen Hawking
from 1966 to 1975
2 moments here
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author whose work on singularities, black-hole thermodynamics, and Hawking radiation reshaped modern…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1982
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Sydney Brenner
from 1953 to 1986
3 moments here
South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…
Moments
- 1947 Cambridge sabbatical return Alan Turing
- 1947 Doctoral study at Cambridge Allan MacLeod Cormack
- 1947 Matriculation at Fitzwilliam Lee Kuan Yew
- 1950 Move to Storey's End Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1951 Fulbright research at the Cavendish Laboratory Lars Onsager
- 1951 Death at Storey's End Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1952 Birth in Cambridge Douglas Adams
- 1953 Return to St John's College Abdus Salam
- 1953 Visits DNA model in Cambridge Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1953 Visit to the DNA model Sydney Brenner
- 1954 Marriage during Cambridge doctoral study Alan MacDiarmid
- 1956 Joined the MRC molecular-biology unit Sydney Brenner
- 1957 Economics studies at Cambridge Manmohan Singh
- 1962 Ninth Pugwash Conference at Cambridge Hideki Yukawa
- 1962 Joins Trinity College Rajiv Gandhi
- 1965 Eddington Memorial Lecture John Eccles
- 1965 Leaves Trinity College Rajiv Gandhi
- 1966 PhD and fellowship at Gonville and Caius Stephen Hawking
- 1969 Simón Bolívar Professorship at Cambridge Octavio Paz
- 1971 Entered St John's College Douglas Adams
- 1974 Graduated from Cambridge Douglas Adams
- 1975 Return to Cambridge as reader Stephen Hawking
- 1977 Simón Bolívar Professor at Cambridge Mario Vargas Llosa
- 1978 Eddington Memorial Lectures Maurice Wilkins
- 1982 Eddington centenary lectures Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1986 Director of the Molecular Genetics Unit Sydney Brenner
- 1988 Dirac Memorial Lecture Abdus Salam