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February 17th, 1933...

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TIME Magazine: Admiral Richard Leigh

(TIME Cover: February the 13th, 1933)

 Famous people born on the 17th of February:

1723 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1762)
1817 - King William III of the Netherlands (d, 1890)
1874 - Thomas J. Watson, American computer manufacturer (d. 1956)
1888 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
1972 - Taylor Hawkins, American musician (Foo Fighters)
1972 - Philippe Candeloro, French figure skater

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933


Erwin Schrödinger
1887-1961

with Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory

Austria
Berlin University - Berlin, Germany



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