England in the Cold War

The atlas holds 4 people and 5 moments here, from 1975 to 1987. The most recorded lives are Margaret Thatcher, Doris Lessing and Sydney Brenner.

Notable people

1. Doris Lessing

   in 1987

   1 moment here

   British novelist Doris May Lessing was born in Kermanshah, Iran, grew up in Southern Rhodesia, and moved to London in 1949.…

2. John Cornforth

   in 1975

   1 moment here

   Australian-British organic chemist and 1975 Nobel Prize laureate, noted for elucidating the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions.…

3. Margaret Thatcher

   in 1984

   2 moments here

   British stateswoman Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the first woman to hold the…

4. Sydney Brenner

   in 1979

   1 moment here

   South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…

Moments

1. 1975 Royal Society Research Professorship at Sussex John Cornforth
2. 1979 Korner Lecture Sydney Brenner
3. 1984 Brighton conference address Margaret Thatcher
4. 1984 Survived Brighton bombing Margaret Thatcher
5. 1987 World Science Fiction Convention appearance Doris Lessing

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