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TIME Magazine: Sir Arthur Eddington
(TIME Cover: April the 16th, 1934)
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Famous people born on the 18th of April: |
1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
1590 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)
1905 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1939 - Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
1969 - Princess Sayako of Japan
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934 |
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Harold Clayton Urey
1893-1981
for their discovery of heavy hydrogen
USA
Columbia University - New York, NY, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1934 |
It Happened One Night
directed by Frank Capra
with Clark Gable (Peter Warne) and Claudette Colbert (Ellie Andrews)
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Designed in 1934 |
The Zig-Zag chair
by Gerrit Rietveld |
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