Geneva in the Space Age
The atlas holds 27 people and 42 moments here, from 1957 to 2007. The most recorded lives are Kofi Annan, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar and Jorge Luis Borges.
Notable people
Sydney Brenner
in 1980
1 moment here
South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…
U Thant
in 1970
1 moment here
Burmese diplomat and third Secretary-General of the United Nations (1961–1971). Born in Pantanaw, he taught and served in Burma’s government before…
Yang Chen-Ning
from 1957 to 1962
3 moments here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist whose work in statistical mechanics, particle physics, gauge theory, and condensed-matter physics included the…