Historical figures in Oxford
The atlas holds 27 people and 46 moments here, from 1492 to 2015. The most recorded lives are Giordano Bruno, Thomas More and Maryam Mirzakhani. Among them Writers, Philosophers and Scientists, across the Space Age and the Cold War.
Notable people
Giordano Bruno
in 1583
1 moment here
Italian Renaissance philosopher, Dominican friar, writer, and cosmological theorist. Born at Nola, Bruno studied and lived in Italy, Switzerland,…
Thomas More
in 1492
1 moment here
English lawyer, humanist author, royal councillor, Speaker of the House of Commons, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Lord Chancellor under…
Maryam Mirzakhani
in 2015
1 moment here
Iranian mathematician whose work transformed the study of hyperbolic surfaces, moduli spaces, and dynamics.…