Cambridge in the Interwar Period
The atlas holds 14 people and 19 moments here, from 1919 to 1939. The most recorded lives are Alan Turing, Virginia Woolf and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Notable people
Alan Turing
from 1931 to 1939
3 moments here
English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computing pioneer. Turing studied at Cambridge and Princeton, worked at Bletchley Park during the…
Albert Einstein
in 1930
1 moment here
German-born theoretical physicist who transformed modern physics through special and general relativity, foundational work on quantum theory, and…
Dorothy Hodgkin
in 1932
1 moment here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Ernest Rutherford
from 1919 to 1937
2 moments here
New Zealand-born physicist and chemist whose research on radioactivity, the atomic nucleus, and nuclear transmutation helped establish nuclear…
Hirohito
in 1921
1 moment here
Hirohito (posthumously Emperor Shōwa) was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989.…
Howard Florey
in 1926
1 moment here
Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who led the Oxford team that developed penicillin into a practical therapeutic drug.…
John Maynard Keynes
in 1924
1 moment here
English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…
Lawrence Bragg
in 1938
1 moment here
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer. Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father, William Henry Bragg, for…
Lev Landau
in 1930
1 moment here
Soviet theoretical physicist Lev Davidovich Landau was born in Baku, educated in Baku and Leningrad, and undertook formative research travel in…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
in 1929
2 moments here
Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…
Maurice Wilkins
in 1935
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…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1936
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Tunku Abdul Rahman
in 1925
1 moment here
Malaysian statesman, UMNO leader, chief minister of the Federation of Malaya, and first prime minister of Malaya and Malaysia.…
Virginia Woolf
in 1928
2 moments here
English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
Moments
- 1919 Return to the Cavendish Laboratory Ernest Rutherford
- 1921 Lecture at the University of Cambridge Hirohito
- 1924 First Bursar of King's College John Maynard Keynes
- 1925 Graduation at Cambridge Tunku Abdul Rahman
- 1926 Cambridge fellowship Howard Florey
- 1928 Women and Fiction lecture at Girton Virginia Woolf
- 1928 Women and Fiction lecture at Newnham Virginia Woolf
- 1929 Return to Cambridge Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1929 Ethics lecture Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1930 Research visit to Cambridge Lev Landau
- 1930 Stays with Eddington in Cambridge Albert Einstein
- 1931 King's College undergraduate studies Alan Turing
- 1932 Begins doctoral study at Newnham College Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1935 Fellowship at King's College Alan Turing
- 1935 Physics studies at St John's Maurice Wilkins
- 1936 Stop in Cambridge with Lalitha Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1937 Death in Cambridge Ernest Rutherford
- 1938 Cavendish Professor at Cambridge Lawrence Bragg
- 1939 Return to Cambridge Alan Turing