Rome in the Cold War

The atlas holds 53 people and 77 moments here, from 1947 to 1991. The most recorded lives are Pope John Paul II, Federico Fellini and Ronald Reagan.

Notable people

  1. Stephen Hawking

    in 1981

    1 moment here

    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author whose work on singularities, black-hole thermodynamics, and Hawking radiation reshaped modern…

  2. Sydney Brenner

    in 1990

    1 moment here

    South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…

  3. William Faulkner

    in 1955

    1 moment here

    American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose work was closely associated with Oxford and north Mississippi.…

  4. Willy Brandt

    in 1970

    1 moment here

    German Social Democratic politician, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm in Lübeck. He lived in exile in Norway and Sweden during the Nazi era, became…

  5. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

    in 1973

    1 moment here

    Pakistani barrister and statesman who served as Pakistan’s fourth president (1971–1973) and ninth prime minister (1973–1977).…

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