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May 5th, 1933...

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TIME Magazine: William R. Hearst

(TIME Cover: May the 1st, 1933)

 Famous people born on the 5th of May:

867 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (d. 931)
1210 - King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)
1747 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
1813 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855)
1818 - Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883)
1826 - Empress Eugenie of France, wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920)
1903 - James Beard, American chef and cookbook writer (d. 1985)

 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



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
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