Lindau in the Cold War
The atlas holds 5 people and 8 moments here, from 1953 to 1988. The most recorded lives are Hideki Yukawa, Maurice Wilkins and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Notable people
Alexander Prokhorov
in 1968
1 moment here
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet and Russian physicist whose work in quantum electronics helped lead to the maser and…
Allan MacLeod Cormack
in 1984
1 moment here
South African-born American physicist and academic whose mathematical work helped establish computed tomography.…
Hideki Yukawa
from 1953 to 1965
3 moments here
Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…
Maurice Wilkins
from 1984 to 1987
2 moments here
New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1988
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Moments
- 1953 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting lecture Hideki Yukawa
- 1956 Lindau lecture on elementary particles Hideki Yukawa
- 1965 Lindau lecture on space-time and matter Hideki Yukawa
- 1968 Lecture at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Alexander Prokhorov
- 1984 Lindau lecture on CAT scanning Allan MacLeod Cormack
- 1984 Lindau lecture on science and war Maurice Wilkins
- 1987 Lindau lecture on ideals of science and medicine Maurice Wilkins
- 1988 Lindau lecture on general relativity Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar