Kyoto in the Space Age

The atlas holds 7 people and 8 moments here, from 1961 to 1981. The most recorded lives are Yasunari Kawabata, Akira Kurosawa and Dorothy Hodgkin.

Abebe Bikila
in 1965
1 moment here
Ethiopian marathon runner and Imperial Guard officer who won Olympic marathon gold in Rome in 1960 and Tokyo in 1964, both in world-record time.…
Akira Kurosawa
in 1968
1 moment here
Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, editor, and painter. Kurosawa directed 30 feature films between 1943 and 1993, including Rashomon, Seven…
Alan MacDiarmid
in 1975
1 moment here
New Zealand-American chemist and 2000 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, known for co-developing conductive polymers.…
Dorothy Hodgkin
in 1972
1 moment here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Hideki Yukawa
in 1981
1 moment here
Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…
Italo Calvino
in 1976
1 moment here
Italian novelist, short-story writer, editor, journalist, and member of Oulipo. Born in Cuba, raised chiefly in Sanremo, and active across Italy,…
Yasunari Kawabata
from 1961 to 1968
2 moments here
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…