Stockholm in the Interwar Period

The atlas holds 11 people and 11 moments here, from 1919 to 1938. The most recorded lives are Rabindranath Tagore, Max Planck and Enrico Fermi.

Notable people

1. Anatole France

   in 1921

   1 moment here

   French poet, journalist, novelist, public intellectual, Académie française member, and 1921 Nobel laureate in Literature.…

2. Enrico Fermi

   in 1938

   1 moment here

   Italian and naturalized-American physicist whose documented movements trace a path from Rome and Pisa through European study in Göttingen and Leiden,…

3. Haile Selassie

   in 1924

   1 moment here

   Haile Selassie I (born Tafari Makonnen) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 until his deposition in 1974.…

4. Ingmar Bergman

   in 1937

   1 moment here

   Swedish filmmaker, screenwriter, theatre director, theatre manager and author. Bergman’s career moved between Stockholm’s student and professional…

5. Lawrence Bragg

   in 1922

   1 moment here

   Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer. Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father, William Henry Bragg, for…

6. Max Planck

   in 1920

   1 moment here

   German theoretical physicist and originator of quantum theory. Planck’s documented life moved from Kiel to Munich, Berlin, Kiel again, and Berlin,…

7. Pearl S. Buck

   in 1938

   1 moment here

   American writer, humanitarian, and activist whose life was divided between the United States and China before she became an internationally prominent…

8. Rabindranath Tagore

   in 1921

   1 moment here

   Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…

9. Selma Lagerlöf

   in 1919

   1 moment here

   Swedish writer, teacher, Nobel laureate, and women’s-suffrage speaker. Lagerlöf was born at Mårbacka in Värmland, trained in Stockholm, taught in…

10. Thomas Mann

    in 1929

    1 moment here

    German novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and 1929 Nobel laureate. Born in Lübeck, he lived principally in Munich before exile from Nazi…

11. Willem Einthoven

    in 1925

    1 moment here

    Dutch physician and physiologist whose work on the string galvanometer made clinical electrocardiography practical.…

Moments

1. 1919 Citizenship celebration speech Selma Lagerlöf
2. 1920 Nobel Prize visit to Stockholm Max Planck
3. 1921 Addresses the Swedish Academy Rabindranath Tagore
4. 1921 Nobel Prize reception in Stockholm Anatole France
5. 1922 Nobel lecture in Stockholm Lawrence Bragg
6. 1924 Foreign tour: Stockholm Haile Selassie
7. 1925 Nobel Banquet speech Willem Einthoven
8. 1929 Nobel Prize ceremony Thomas Mann
9. 1937 University studies and student theatre Ingmar Bergman
10. 1938 Nobel Prize visit Enrico Fermi
11. 1938 Nobel Prize ceremony Pearl S. Buck

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