Cambridge in the Space Age
The atlas holds 14 people and 19 moments here, from 1957 to 2018. The most recorded lives are Stephen Hawking, Douglas Adams and Rajiv Gandhi.
Notable people
Abdus Salam
in 1988
1 moment here
Pakistani theoretical physicist and 1979 Nobel Prize laureate whose career connected education in Punjab and Cambridge with professorships in Lahore…
Douglas Adams
from 1971 to 1974
2 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.…
Jiang Zemin
in 1999
1 moment here
Jiang Zemin was a Chinese electrical engineer and politician who served as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1989 to 2002,…
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.…
Kim Dae-jung
in 1993
1 moment here
South Korean politician, democracy activist, and eighth president of South Korea (1998–2003).…
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 2018
4 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
in 1986
1 moment here
South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…
Moments
- 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
- 1993 Research fellowship at Cambridge Kim Dae-jung
- 1994 Newton Institute lecture series Stephen Hawking
- 1999 Speech at University of Cambridge Jiang Zemin
- 2018 Death at home in Cambridge Stephen Hawking