Princeton University in the Interwar Period

The atlas holds 6 people and 10 moments here, from 1921 to 1939. The most recorded lives are Albert Einstein, Alan Turing and Thomas Mann.

Notable people

1. Alan Turing

   from 1936 to 1938

   2 moments here

   English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computing pioneer. Turing studied at Cambridge and Princeton, worked at Bletchley Park during the…

2. Albert Einstein

   from 1921 to 1935

   3 moments here

   German-born theoretical physicist who transformed modern physics through special and general relativity, foundational work on quantum theory, and…

3. Erwin Schrödinger

   in 1934

   1 moment here

   Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose work on wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation became foundational to quantum…

4. Hideki Yukawa

   in 1939

   1 moment here

   Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…

5. John F. Kennedy

   in 1935

   1 moment here

   John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American naval officer, journalist, congressman, senator, and the 35th president of the United States.…

6. Thomas Mann

   in 1938

   2 moments here

   German novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and 1929 Nobel laureate. Born in Lübeck, he lived principally in Munich before exile from Nazi…

Moments

1. 1921 Lectures at Princeton Albert Einstein
2. 1933 Returns permanently to United States Albert Einstein
3. 1934 Lectures at Princeton University Erwin Schrödinger
4. 1935 Establishes home at 112 Mercer Street Albert Einstein
5. 1935 Enrolled at Princeton John F. Kennedy
6. 1936 Princeton doctoral study Alan Turing
7. 1938 Princeton PhD Alan Turing
8. 1938 Settlement and teaching at Princeton Thomas Mann
9. 1938 Lecture on Goethe's Faust Thomas Mann
10. 1939 Visit to Princeton University Hideki Yukawa

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