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TIME Magazine: Nicholas M. Butler
(TIME Cover: February the 15th, 1932)
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Famous people born on the 15th of February: |
1471 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1503)
1564 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)
1710 - King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)
1723 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1794)
1809 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
1882 - John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)
1944 - Mick Avory, British drummer (The Kinks)
1945 - John Helliwell, British musician (Supertramp)
1946 - Marisa Berenson, American actress
1959 - Ali Campbell, British musician (UB40)
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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
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