Copenhagen in the Interwar Period

The atlas holds 6 people and 9 moments here, from 1918 to 1934. The most recorded lives are Lev Landau, Niels Bohr and Ernest Rutherford.

Ernest Rutherford
in 1920
1 moment here
New Zealand-born physicist and chemist whose research on radioactivity, the atomic nucleus, and nuclear transmutation helped establish nuclear…
Lev Landau
from 1930 to 1931
3 moments here
Soviet theoretical physicist Lev Davidovich Landau was born in Baku, educated in Baku and Leningrad, and undertook formative research travel in…
Niels Bohr
from 1921 to 1932
2 moments here
Danish theoretical physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory earned the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.…
Prajadhipok
in 1934
1 moment here
Prajadhipok (Rama VII) was King of Siam from 1925 until his abdication in 1935. Educated in England and trained in the military, he travelled…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1918
1 moment here
Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Born in the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire, he studied and worked chiefly in Saint…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1932
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…