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February 8th, 1933...

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TIME Magazine: Senator Carter Glass

(TIME Cover: February the 6th, 1933)

 Famous people born on the 8th of February:

412 - Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 487)
1191 - Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
1291 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)
1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782)
1720 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
1828 - Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905)
1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
1931 - James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
1974 - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk)

 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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