Princeton University in the Cold War
The atlas holds 9 people and 14 moments here, from 1948 to 1989. The most recorded lives are Tsung-Dao Lee, Hideki Yukawa and Yang Chen-Ning.
Notable people
Abdus Salam
in 1959
1 moment here
Pakistani theoretical physicist and 1979 Nobel Prize laureate whose career connected education in Punjab and Cambridge with professorships in Lahore…
Albert Einstein
in 1955
1 moment here
German-born theoretical physicist who transformed modern physics through special and general relativity, foundational work on quantum theory, and…
Hideki Yukawa
from 1948 to 1949
2 moments here
Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…
Nadine Gordimer
in 1969
1 moment here
South African novelist, short-story writer, and anti-apartheid activist whose work examined apartheid, race, power, and moral responsibility.…
Sydney Brenner
from 1966 to 1977
2 moments here
South African-born molecular biologist whose career moved from Johannesburg and Oxford to Cambridge, California, Singapore and other scientific…
Thích Nhất Hạnh
in 1961
1 moment here
Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, teacher, author, and peace activist. Thích Nhất Hạnh helped develop engaged Buddhism, founded the Plum Village…
Toni Morrison
in 1989
1 moment here
Toni Morrison (Chloe Ardelia Wofford) was an American novelist, editor, and professor whose career moved through Ohio, Washington, D.C., New York,…
Tsung-Dao Lee
from 1951 to 1960
3 moments here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist and 1957 Nobel laureate, known for work on parity violation, particle physics, statistical mechanics, and…
Yang Chen-Ning
from 1949 to 1950
2 moments here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist whose work in statistical mechanics, particle physics, gauge theory, and condensed-matter physics included the…
Moments
- 1948 Institute for Advanced Study membership Hideki Yukawa
- 1949 Visiting Albert Einstein in Princeton Hideki Yukawa
- 1949 Institute for Advanced Study appointment Yang Chen-Ning
- 1950 Marriage in Princeton Yang Chen-Ning
- 1951 Member at the Institute for Advanced Study Tsung-Dao Lee
- 1955 Dies at Princeton Hospital Albert Einstein
- 1957 Second Institute for Advanced Study membership Tsung-Dao Lee
- 1959 Fellowship at Princeton Abdus Salam
- 1960 Faculty appointment at the Institute for Advanced Study Tsung-Dao Lee
- 1961 Comparative-religion study at Princeton Thích Nhất Hạnh
- 1966 Carter-Wallace Lectures Sydney Brenner
- 1969 Visiting lecturer at Princeton University Nadine Gordimer
- 1977 Return for Carter-Wallace Lectures Sydney Brenner
- 1989 Princeton faculty appointment Toni Morrison