Lindau in the Space Age
The atlas holds 5 people and 8 moments here, from 1965 to 1996. The most recorded lives are Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Maurice Wilkins and Allan MacLeod Cormack.
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
from 1984 to 1996
2 moments here
South African-born American physicist and academic whose mathematical work helped establish computed tomography.…
Hideki Yukawa
in 1965
1 moment 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
from 1988 to 1994
2 moments here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Moments
- 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
- 1994 Lindau lecture on Newton and Michelangelo Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1996 Lindau lecture on internal imaging Allan MacLeod Cormack