Boston in World War II

The atlas holds 4 people and 5 moments here, from 1939 to 1945. The most recorded lives are I. M. Pei, John F. Kennedy and Igor Stravinsky.

Notable people

1. Igor Stravinsky

   in 1939

   1 moment here

   Russian-born composer, conductor, and pianist who became a French citizen in 1934 and an American citizen in 1945.…

2. I. M. Pei

   from 1942 to 1945

   2 moments here

   Ieoh Ming Pei was a Chinese-American architect whose work ranged from U.S. civic and cultural buildings to major projects in China, France, and the…

3. John F. Kennedy

   in 1944

   1 moment here

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

4. Macfarlane Burnet

   in 1944

   1 moment here

   Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…

Moments

1. 1939 Harvard Norton Lectures Igor Stravinsky
2. 1942 Harvard Graduate School of Design enrollment I. M. Pei
3. 1944 Dunham Lectures at Harvard Macfarlane Burnet
4. 1944 Treated at Chelsea Naval Hospital John F. Kennedy
5. 1945 Return to Harvard after wartime work I. M. Pei

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