United States in the Interwar Period

The atlas holds 8 people and 10 moments here, from 1922 to 1937. The most recorded lives are Thomas Mann, Niels Bohr and John Maynard Keynes.

Eisaku Satō
in 1934
1 moment here
Japanese politician and prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972. A former railway bureaucrat, Satō led Japan during rapid economic growth, pursued…
Henri Matisse
in 1929
1 moment here
French painter, sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker, and major figure of modern art. Born in Le Cateau-Cambresis, Matisse trained and worked…
Hideki Tojo
in 1922
1 moment here
Japanese Imperial Army officer and politician who served as Japan's prime minister from 1941 to 1944.…
Jiddu Krishnamurti
in 1923
1 moment here
Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer. Raised within the Theosophical Society, he became head of the Order of the Star in the East, dissolved it at…
John Maynard Keynes
in 1934
1 moment here
English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…
Niels Bohr
in 1933
1 moment here
Danish theoretical physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory earned the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.…
Thomas Mann
from 1934 to 1937
3 moments here
German novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and 1929 Nobel laureate. Born in Lübeck, he lived principally in Munich before exile from Nazi…
Willem Einthoven
in 1924
1 moment here
Dutch physician and physiologist whose work on the string galvanometer made clinical electrocardiography practical.…