Philadelphia in the Space Age
The atlas holds 15 people and 20 moments here, from 1962 to 2023. The most recorded lives are Astrud Gilberto, Gerald Ford and Kobe Bryant.
Notable people
Alan MacDiarmid
in 2007
1 moment here
New Zealand-American chemist and 2000 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, known for co-developing conductive polymers.…
Astrud Gilberto
from 1989 to 2023
3 moments here
Brazilian-American singer and songwriter best known for her English-language vocals on “The Girl from Ipanema.” Born in Salvador, she grew up in Rio…
Dorothy Hodgkin
in 1970
1 moment here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
F. W. de Klerk
in 1993
1 moment here
South African lawyer and National Party politician who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994…
Gerald Ford
from 1976 to 2000
2 moments here
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 after having served as…
Jimmy Carter
in 1976
1 moment here
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American naval officer, Georgia state senator and governor, the 39th president of the United States, and a…
John Atta Mills
from 1978 to 1986
2 moments here
John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills was a Ghanaian legal scholar and politician who served as vice president of Ghana from 1997 to 2001 and president from 7…
John F. Kennedy
in 1962
1 moment here
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American naval officer, journalist, congressman, senator, and the 35th president of the United States.…
John McCain
in 1965
1 moment here
John Sidney McCain III was an American naval aviator, Vietnam War prisoner of war, U.S. representative, U.S.…
Judy Garland
in 1968
1 moment here
American actress, singer, and vaudevillian, born Frances Ethel Gumm. Garland rose from childhood vaudeville and MGM musical films to become a major…
Kobe Bryant
from 1978 to 1991
2 moments here
Kobe Bean Bryant was an American professional basketball player who spent his entire 20-year NBA career with the Los Angeles Lakers.…
Macfarlane Burnet
in 1962
1 moment here
Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Muhammad Ali
in 1976
1 moment here
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) was an American boxer, activist, humanitarian, and global cultural figure.…
Pope Francis
in 2015
1 moment here
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, was an Argentine Jesuit priest, archbishop of Buenos Aires, cardinal, and head of the Catholic Church and…
Rosa Parks
in 1968
1 moment here
American civil-rights activist whose lifelong work against racial segregation included local NAACP organizing in Montgomery, the 1955 bus protest and…
Moments
- 1962 Chouke Lecture in Philadelphia Macfarlane Burnet
- 1962 Spoke at Independence Hall John F. Kennedy
- 1965 Marriage to Carol Shepp John McCain
- 1968 Philadelphia Black Power conference Rosa Parks
- 1968 Last United States concert Judy Garland
- 1970 Patterson Memorial Lecture at Fox Chase Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1976 Philadelphia Arena appearance Muhammad Ali
- 1976 First Carter–Ford debate Gerald Ford
- 1976 Ford debate at Walnut Street Theatre Jimmy Carter
- 1978 First Temple University visiting professorship John Atta Mills
- 1978 Birth in Philadelphia Kobe Bryant
- 1986 Second Temple University visiting professorship John Atta Mills
- 1989 Hershey Hotel engagement Astrud Gilberto
- 1991 Return to the Philadelphia area for school Kobe Bryant
- 1993 Liberty Medal appearance F. W. de Klerk
- 2000 Hospitalization during Republican convention Gerald Ford
- 2001 Recording Jungle in South Philadelphia Astrud Gilberto
- 2007 Death at his Drexel Hill home Alan MacDiarmid
- 2015 United States pastoral visit Pope Francis
- 2023 Death at home in Philadelphia Astrud Gilberto