England in the Space Age
The atlas holds 5 people and 7 moments here, from 1975 to 2013. The most recorded lives are Margaret Thatcher, John Cornforth and Doris Lessing.
Notable people
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.…
John Cornforth
from 1975 to 2013
2 moments here
Australian-British organic chemist and 1975 Nobel Prize laureate, noted for elucidating the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions.…
Luísa Diogo
in 2005
1 moment here
Mozambican economist and FRELIMO politician who served as Minister of Planning and Finance and as Mozambique’s first female prime minister, from 2004…
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…
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
- 1975 Royal Society Research Professorship at Sussex John Cornforth
- 1979 Korner Lecture Sydney Brenner
- 1984 Brighton conference address Margaret Thatcher
- 1984 Survived Brighton bombing Margaret Thatcher
- 1987 World Science Fiction Convention appearance Doris Lessing
- 2005 Labour Party Conference speech Luísa Diogo
- 2013 Death in Sussex John Cornforth