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TIME Magazine: Charles Curtis
(TIME Cover: December the 5th, 1932)
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Famous people born on the 16th of December: |
1485 - Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England (d. 1536)
1790 - King Léopold I of Belgium (d. 1865)
1888 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
1905 - Piet Hein, Danish mathematician and inventor (d. 1996)
1946 - Benny Andersson, Swedish musician, singer and songwriter (ABBA)
1949 - Billy Gibbons, American guitarist (ZZ Top)
1971 - Paul van Dyk (real name Matthias Paul), German trance DJ and producer
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932 |
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Werner Karl Heisenberg
1901-1976
for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen
Germany
Leipzig University - Leipzig, Germany
Photo: nobelprize.org
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The Coat stand, model no. B132
by Emile Guyot |
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