China in the Space Age

The atlas holds 6 people and 6 moments here, from 1957 to 1988. The most recorded lives are Kwame Nkrumah, Rajiv Gandhi and Dorothy Hodgkin.

Chien-Shiung Wu
in 1973
1 moment here
Chinese-American experimental physicist whose career moved from Jiangsu and eastern China to California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York,…
Dorothy Hodgkin
in 1959
1 moment here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Jiang Zemin
in 1972
1 moment here
Jiang Zemin was a Chinese electrical engineer and politician who served as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1989 to 2002,…
Kwame Nkrumah
in 1961
1 moment here
Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…
Rajiv Gandhi
in 1988
1 moment here
Rajiv Gandhi was an Indian aircraft pilot and politician who served as prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989.…
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
in 1957
1 moment here
Indian philosopher, academic, diplomat, and statesman. Radhakrishnan taught at leading Indian and British universities, served as vice-chancellor of…