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TIME Magazine: Norman M. Thomas
(TIME Cover: August the 8th, 1932)
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Famous people born on the 9th of August: |
1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
1896 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (d. 1980)
1925 - David A. Huffman, Creator of Huffman coding (d. 1999)
1939 - Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission
1957 - Melanie Griffith, American actress
1963 - Whitney Houston, American singer and actress
1968 - Gillian Anderson, American actress
1978 - Audrey Tautou, French actress
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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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