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April 30th, 1930...

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TIME Magazine: Leopold Stokowski

(TIME Cover: April the 28th, 1930)

 Famous people born on the 30th of April:

1662 - Queen Mary II of England
1721 - Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1855)
1909 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
1946 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
1956 - Lars von Trier, Danish film director

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930


Karl Landsteiner
1868-1943

for his discovery of human blood groups

Austria
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research - New York, NY, USA.



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
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