Historical figures in Yale University
The atlas holds 21 people and 28 moments here, from 1789 to 2010. The most recorded lives are William Howard Taft, Charles Dickens and Gerald Ford. Among them Political Leaders, Writers and Scientists, across the Space Age and the Cold War.
Notable people
Alexei Navalny
in 2010
1 moment here
Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist, politician, and political prisoner. This chronology records supported locations of his birth,…
Charles Dickens
from 1842 to 1868
2 moments here
English novelist, journalist, editor, social reformer, actor and celebrated public reader. This chronology traces documented residences, workplaces,…
Colleen McCullough
from 1967 to 1974
2 moments here
Australian novelist and neurophysiologist best known for The Thorn Birds. Born in Wellington, New South Wales, she worked in Sydney, London, and New…
George H. W. Bush
in 1948
1 moment here
George Herbert Walker Bush was an American naval aviator, oil executive, congressman, diplomat, director of central intelligence, vice president, and…
George Washington
in 1789
1 moment here
George Washington was a Virginia surveyor, planter, military commander, revolutionary leader, constitutional statesman, and the first president of…
Gerald Ford
from 1935 to 1938
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…
Harry S. Truman
in 1958
1 moment here
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.…
Howard Florey
in 1941
1 moment here
Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who led the Oxford team that developed penicillin into a practical therapeutic drug.…
Jim Morrison
in 1967
1 moment here
James Douglas “Jim” Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, poet, and lead vocalist of the Doors.…
John F. Kennedy
in 1931
1 moment here
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American naval officer, journalist, congressman, senator, and the 35th president of the United States.…
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…
Lars Onsager
from 1933 to 1934
2 moments here
Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist whose career took him from Norway and Switzerland to major American universities.…
Macfarlane Burnet
in 1952
1 moment here
Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Marie Curie
in 1921
1 moment here
Polish-born, naturalized-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity. With Pierre Curie she discovered polonium and radium.…
Martin Luther King Jr.
in 1959
1 moment here
American Baptist minister and civil-rights leader who advanced racial equality through nonviolent protest.…
Max Theiler
from 1964 to 1972
2 moments here
South African-American virologist and physician whose work at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Yale contributed to the development of the 17D…
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
in 1989
1 moment here
Kenyan novelist, playwright, essayist, language advocate, and academic. Ngũgĩ’s life moved from colonial Kenya through education in Uganda and…
Sydney Brenner
in 1992
1 moment here
South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…
Wangarĩ Maathai
in 2002
1 moment here
Kenyan environmentalist, democracy activist, academic, founder of the Green Belt Movement, parliamentarian, and the first African woman awarded the…
William Faulkner
in 1918
1 moment here
American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose work was closely associated with Oxford and north Mississippi.…
William Howard Taft
from 1874 to 1913
3 moments here
William Howard Taft was an American lawyer, judge, colonial administrator, secretary of war, 27th president of the United States, and 10th chief…
Moments
- 1789 Attends worship in New Haven George Washington
- 1842 Reaches New Haven Charles Dickens
- 1868 Reads in New Haven Charles Dickens
- 1874 Enters Yale College William Howard Taft
- 1878 Graduates from Yale William Howard Taft
- 1913 Arrives at Yale after presidency William Howard Taft
- 1918 Living at Yale with Phil Stone William Faulkner
- 1921 Visits Yale University Marie Curie
- 1931 Entered Choate John F. Kennedy
- 1933 Sterling and Gibbs Fellow at Yale Lars Onsager
- 1934 Family home in New Haven Lars Onsager
- 1935 Yale coaching appointment Gerald Ford
- 1938 Yale Law School admission Gerald Ford
- 1941 Meeting at New Haven Howard Florey
- 1948 Yale graduation George H. W. Bush
- 1952 Woodward Lecture at Yale Macfarlane Burnet
- 1958 Visiting lecturer at Yale Harry S. Truman
- 1959 Speaks at Yale's Woolsey Hall Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1964 Yale professorship in New Haven Max Theiler
- 1967 Research post at Yale Medical School Colleen McCullough
- 1967 Onstage arrest in New Haven Jim Morrison
- 1971 Encuentro at Yale Jorge Luis Borges
- 1972 Death in New Haven Max Theiler
- 1974 Writing Tim at Yale Colleen McCullough
- 1989 Visiting professor at Yale Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- 1992 Farr Lecture Sydney Brenner
- 2002 McCluskey Fellowship at Yale Wangarĩ Maathai
- 2010 Yale World Fellows program Alexei Navalny