Cambridge in the Space Age
The atlas holds 5 people and 9 moments here, from 1957 to 2018. The most recorded lives are Stephen Hawking, Douglas Adams and Mario Vargas Llosa.
Notable people
Stephen Hawking
from 1966 to 2018
4 moments here
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author whose work on singularities, black-hole thermodynamics, and Hawking radiation reshaped modern…
Douglas Adams
from 1971 to 1974
2 moments here
English author, screenwriter and humourist best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.…
Mario Vargas Llosa
in 1977
1 moment here
Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and political figure. Vargas Llosa lived and worked across Peru, Bolivia, Spain, France, the United Kingdom,…
Octavio Paz
in 1969
1 moment here
Mexican poet, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose international postings and teaching appointments connected Mexico City, the United States, Europe,…
Manmohan Singh
in 1957
1 moment here
Indian economist, academic, civil servant, finance minister and prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014.…
Moments
- 1957 Economics studies at Cambridge Manmohan Singh
- 1966 PhD and fellowship at Gonville and Caius Stephen Hawking
- 1969 Simón Bolívar Professorship at Cambridge Octavio Paz
- 1971 Entered St John's College Douglas Adams
- 1974 Graduated from Cambridge Douglas Adams
- 1975 Return to Cambridge as reader Stephen Hawking
- 1977 Simón Bolívar Professor at Cambridge Mario Vargas Llosa
- 1994 Newton Institute lecture series Stephen Hawking
- 2018 Death at home in Cambridge Stephen Hawking