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TIME Magazine: Edouard Herriot
(TIME Cover: May the 16th, 1932)
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Famous people born on the 19th of May: |
1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, First President of Turkey (d. 1938)
1890 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969)
1925 - Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1925 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator and mass murderer (d. 1998)
1945 - Pete Townshend, English guitarist and lyricist (The Who)
1948 - Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
1949 - Dusty Hill, American blues rock singer/bassist (ZZ Top)
1951 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
1963 - Yazz, British singer
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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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Designed in 1932 |
The Coat stand, model no. B132
by Emile Guyot |
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