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TIME Magazine: Koki Hirota
(TIME Cover: May the 21st, 1934)
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Famous people born on the 23rd of May: |
1052 - King Philip I of France (d. 1108)
1100 - Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161)
1734 - Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician/hypnotist (d.1815)
1917 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (invented the strange attractor notion and coined the term butterfly effect)
1933 - Joan Collins, English actress
1951 - Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
1967 - Phil Selway, English drummer (Radiohead)
1972 - Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian race car driver
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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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