Yale University in the Space Age
The atlas holds 10 people and 12 moments here, from 1958 to 2010. The most recorded lives are Max Theiler, Colleen McCullough and Martin Luther King Jr..
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,…
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…
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.…
Jim Morrison
in 1967
1 moment here
James Douglas “Jim” Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, poet, and lead vocalist of the Doors.…
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…
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…
Moments
- 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