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April 27th, 1932...

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TIME Magazine: Neville Chamberlain

(TIME Cover: April the 25th, 1932)

 Famous people born on the 27th of April:

1701 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
1891 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (d. 1953)
1899 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist, creator of Woody Woodpecker (d. 1994)
1948 - Kate Pierson, American singer (The B-52's)
1967 - Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932


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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