Stockholm in the Space Age
The atlas holds 40 people and 50 moments here, from 1957 to 2015. The most recorded lives are Ingmar Bergman, Albert Camus and Pelé.
Notable people
Ada Yonath
in 2009
2 moments here
Israeli crystallographer whose work on ribosome structure and function earned her a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.…
Alan MacDiarmid
in 2000
1 moment here
New Zealand-American chemist and 2000 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, known for co-developing conductive polymers.…
Albert Camus
in 1957
2 moments here
French writer, philosopher, journalist, and political activist, born in French Algeria. Camus studied and worked in Algiers, moved between Algeria…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
in 1974
1 moment here
Soviet and Russian novelist, essayist, historian, dissident, and Nobel laureate whose writings on Soviet political repression and the Gulag made him…
Alexander Prokhorov
in 1964
1 moment here
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet and Russian physicist whose work in quantum electronics helped lead to the maser and…
Allan MacLeod Cormack
in 1979
1 moment here
South African-born American physicist and academic whose mathematical work helped establish computed tomography.…
Andy Warhol
in 1968
1 moment here
American artist and filmmaker whose work helped define Pop art. Born in Pittsburgh, Warhol studied there before moving to New York in 1949.…
Claude Simon
in 1985
1 moment here
French novelist, painter, photographer, viticulturist, Resistance participant, and 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.…
Derek Walcott
in 1992
2 moments here
Saint Lucian poet, playwright, painter, and teacher who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.…
Dorothy Hodgkin
in 1958
1 moment here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Édith Piaf
in 1958
1 moment here
French singer and lyricist Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Édith Piaf, rose from street performance in Paris to international prominence in chanson…
Freddie Mercury
in 1986
1 moment here
Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara) was a British singer, songwriter, pianist, and lead vocalist of Queen.…
F. W. de Klerk
in 2001
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…
Gabriel García Márquez
in 1982
1 moment here
Colombian novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose life moved between Colombia, Europe, Cuba, the United States, Mexico, and…
Garrincha
in 1958
1 moment here
Manuel Francisco dos Santos, known as Garrincha, was a Brazilian right winger. He spent most of his club career with Botafogo and won the FIFA World…
Ingmar Bergman
from 1963 to 1981
3 moments here
Swedish filmmaker, screenwriter, theatre director, theatre manager and author. Bergman’s career moved between Stockholm’s student and professional…
John Steinbeck
in 1962
1 moment here
American novelist, journalist, and war correspondent whose life and work ranged from California’s Salinas Valley and Monterey Peninsula to wartime…
José Mujica
in 2011
1 moment here
Uruguayan guerrilla fighter, farmer and politician who was president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015.…
Kenzaburō Ōe
in 1994
1 moment here
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, Nobel laureate, and prominent pacifist and anti-nuclear campaigner.…
Lars Onsager
in 1968
1 moment here
Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist whose career took him from Norway and Switzerland to major American universities.…
Macfarlane Burnet
in 1960
1 moment here
Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Mario Vargas Llosa
in 2010
2 moments here
Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and political figure. Vargas Llosa lived and worked across Peru, Bolivia, Spain, France, the United Kingdom,…
Maurice Wilkins
in 1962
1 moment here
New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
in 1967
1 moment here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Moments
- 1957 Lucia ceremony in Stockholm Albert Camus
- 1957 Nobel banquet speech Albert Camus
- 1957 Nobel Prize ceremony Tsung-Dao Lee
- 1957 Nobel Banquet speech Yang Chen-Ning
- 1958 Lecture in Stockholm Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1958 Stage illness in Stockholm Édith Piaf
- 1958 1958 World Cup final Garrincha
- 1958 World Cup final Pelé
- 1958 World Cup semi-final hat-trick Pelé
- 1959 State visit to Sweden Olav V
- 1960 Nobel-year visit to Stockholm Macfarlane Burnet
- 1960 Nobel Prize ceremony Saint-John Perse
- 1962 Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm John Steinbeck
- 1962 Nobel Prize ceremony Maurice Wilkins
- 1963 Leadership of the Royal Dramatic Theatre Ingmar Bergman
- 1964 Arrival for the Nobel Prize week Alexander Prokhorov
- 1967 Nobel banquet speech Miguel Ángel Asturias
- 1968 Moderna Museet appearance Andy Warhol
- 1968 Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm Lars Onsager
- 1968 Nobel Prize events in Stockholm Yasunari Kawabata
- 1971 Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm Pablo Neruda
- 1971 Visit to Stockholm Willy Brandt
- 1974 Nobel banquet speech Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- 1975 State visit to Sweden Olav V
- 1976 Arrest during rehearsal Ingmar Bergman
- 1979 Nobel Prize ceremony Allan MacLeod Cormack
- 1981 Fanny and Alexander production begins Ingmar Bergman
- 1982 Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm Gabriel García Márquez
- 1983 Nobel Prize award ceremony Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1984 Right Livelihood Award acceptance Wangarĩ Maathai
- 1985 Nobel lecture and prize reception Claude Simon
- 1986 Magic Tour opening Freddie Mercury
- 1987 Anders Retzius Lecture Sydney Brenner
- 1990 Nobel lecture at the Swedish Academy Octavio Paz
- 1991 Nobel Prize award ceremony Nadine Gordimer
- 1992 Nobel lecture at the Swedish Academy Derek Walcott
- 1992 Nobel Prize ceremony Derek Walcott
- 1994 Nobel Prize award ceremony Kenzaburō Ōe
- 2000 Nobel Prize award ceremony Alan MacDiarmid
- 2001 Visit to Stockholm F. W. de Klerk
- 2001 Nobel Centennial Symposium lecture Nadine Gordimer
- 2001 Nobel Lecture at the Swedish Academy V. S. Naipaul
- 2005 Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm Robin Warren
- 2007 Return to Stockholm for Nobel anniversary Tsung-Dao Lee
- 2009 Nobel Lecture Ada Yonath
- 2009 Received Nobel Prize in Chemistry Ada Yonath
- 2010 Nobel Lecture Mario Vargas Llosa
- 2010 Nobel Prize award ceremony Mario Vargas Llosa
- 2011 Meetings in Stockholm José Mujica
- 2015 Lecture at Stockholm Waterfront Stephen Hawking