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TIME Magazine: Arthur H. Compton
(TIME Cover: January the 13th, 1936)
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Famous people born on the 14th of January: |
1702 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (d. 1737)
1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
1861 - Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926)
1875 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1941 - Faye Dunaway, American actress
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936 |
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Victor Franz Hess
1883-1964
for his discovery of cosmic radiation
Austria
Innsbruck University - Innsbruck, Austria
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1936 |
The Great Ziegfeld
directed by Robert Z. Leonard
with Luise Rainer (Anna Held)
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Designed in 1936 |
The Cradle
by Jean Prouvé |
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