Historical figures in Peru
The atlas holds 3 people and 3 moments here, from 1938 to 1965. The most recorded lives are Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriela Mistral and Maurice Wilkins. Among them Writers, Educators and Political Leaders, across the Cold War and the Interwar Period.
Notable people
Gabriela Mistral
in 1938
1 moment here
Chilean poet, educator, journalist, and diplomat born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Mistral taught across Chile, worked on Mexican educational reform,…
Jorge Luis Borges
in 1965
1 moment here
Argentine writer, poet, essayist, translator, lecturer, librarian, and critic. Borges was born in Buenos Aires, lived in Switzerland and Spain during…
Maurice Wilkins
in 1952
1 moment here
New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Moments
- 1938 Lecture tour in Peru Gabriela Mistral
- 1952 Subsequent trip to Peru Maurice Wilkins
- 1965 First trip to Peru Jorge Luis Borges