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TIME Magazine: Charles Curtis
(TIME Cover: December the 5th, 1932)
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Famous people born on the 17th of December: |
1239 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256)
1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)
1734 - Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen (d. 1816)
1888 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
1908 - Willard Frank Libby, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
1939 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1992)
1941 - Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (d. 1991)
1956 - Mike Mills, American bassist (R.E.M.)
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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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