Oxford in the Space Age
The atlas holds 16 people and 21 moments here, from 1959 to 2015. The most recorded lives are Howard Florey, Benazir Bhutto and Manmohan Singh.
Notable people
Abdus Salam
in 1996
1 moment here
Pakistani theoretical physicist and 1979 Nobel Prize laureate whose career connected education in Punjab and Cambridge with professorships in Lahore…
Benazir Bhutto
from 1973 to 1977
2 moments here
Pakistani political leader who served twice as prime minister, from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996.…
Charlie Chaplin
in 1962
1 moment here
English actor, comedian, director, writer, producer and composer whose screen persona, the Tramp, became an international icon.…
Elizabeth Taylor
in 1966
1 moment here
British-American actress and HIV/AIDS activist. Born in London, Taylor moved to Southern California in 1939, became a major Hollywood star, worked…
Fidel V. Ramos
in 1997
1 moment here
Filipino military officer and politician who served as president of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998.…
Howard Florey
from 1962 to 1968
3 moments here
Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who led the Oxford team that developed penicillin into a practical therapeutic drug.…
John Eccles
in 1990
1 moment here
Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher John Carew Eccles (1903–1997) was a Nobel laureate noted for research on synaptic transmission.…
Jorge Luis Borges
in 1971
1 moment here
Argentine writer, poet, essayist, translator, lecturer, librarian, and critic. Borges was born in Buenos Aires, lived in Switzerland and Spain during…
J. R. R. Tolkien
in 1972
1 moment here
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English philologist, university professor, and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.…
Manmohan Singh
from 1960 to 1962
2 moments here
Indian economist, academic, civil servant, finance minister and prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014.…
Maryam Mirzakhani
in 2015
1 moment here
Iranian mathematician whose work transformed the study of hyperbolic surfaces, moduli spaces, and dynamics.…
Osama bin Laden
in 1971
1 moment here
Saudi-born founder and first emir of al-Qaeda. His documented movements include childhood and education in Saudi Arabia and England; militant…
Ronald Reagan
in 1992
1 moment here
American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Stephen Hawking
in 1959
1 moment here
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author whose work on singularities, black-hole thermodynamics, and Hawking radiation reshaped modern…
Sydney Brenner
from 1976 to 1980
2 moments here
South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…
Winston Churchill
in 1965
1 moment here
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) was a British soldier, journalist, author and statesman whose career ranged from imperial campaigns in…
Moments
- 1959 Undergraduate study at University College Stephen Hawking
- 1960 Doctoral study at Oxford Manmohan Singh
- 1962 Provost's lodgings at Queen's College Howard Florey
- 1962 DPhil completed at Oxford Manmohan Singh
- 1962 Receives Oxford honorary degree Charlie Chaplin
- 1965 Buried at Bladon Winston Churchill
- 1966 Doctor Faustus performance Elizabeth Taylor
- 1967 Marriage to Margaret Jennings Howard Florey
- 1968 Death at the provost's lodgings Howard Florey
- 1971 Oxford honorary doctorate Jorge Luis Borges
- 1971 English-language course in Oxford Osama bin Laden
- 1972 Return to central Oxford J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1973 Relocates for Oxford study Benazir Bhutto
- 1976 Herbert Spencer Lecture Sydney Brenner
- 1977 President of the Oxford Union Benazir Bhutto
- 1980 Archibald Garrod Lecture Sydney Brenner
- 1990 Idrios Lecture John Eccles
- 1992 Addresses Oxford Union Ronald Reagan
- 1996 Death in Oxford Abdus Salam
- 1997 Address to the Oxford Union Fidel V. Ramos
- 2015 Visits Oxford and meets Mirzakhani Society Maryam Mirzakhani