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August 9th, 1933...

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TIME Magazine: Marie Dressler

(TIME Cover: August the 7th, 1933)

 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

 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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