Historical figures in Xiamen
The atlas holds 4 people and 4 moments here, from 1902 to 1940. The most recorded lives are Lu Xun, Yang Chen-Ning and Walter Brattain. Across the Interwar Period and World War II.
Notable people
Aung San
in 1940
1 moment here
Burmese independence leader, political organizer, and military commander. Aung San helped found the Burma Independence Army, led the anti-Japanese…
Lu Xun
in 1926
1 moment here
Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren; 1881–1936) was a Chinese writer, critic, translator, lecturer, and civil servant whose work was central to modern Chinese…
Walter Brattain
in 1902
1 moment here
American experimental physicist and co-inventor of the point-contact transistor. Brattain’s documented life moved from his birth in Amoy, China,…
Yang Chen-Ning
in 1928
1 moment here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist whose work in statistical mechanics, particle physics, gauge theory, and condensed-matter physics included the…
Moments
- 1902 Birth in Amoy Walter Brattain
- 1926 Flight to Xiamen and university teaching Lu Xun
- 1928 Family move to Xiamen Yang Chen-Ning
- 1940 Voyage to Xiamen Aung San