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TIME Magazine: William S. Knudsen
(TIME Cover: January the 18th, 1937)
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Famous people born on the 24th of January: |
76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)
1705 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)
1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
1959 - Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1937 |
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Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrapolt
1893-1986
for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid
Hungary
Szeged University - Szeged, Hungary
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1937 |
The Life of Emile Zola
directed by William Dieterle
with Paul Muni (emile Zola) and Joseph Schildkraut (Captain Alfred Dreyfus)
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Designed in 1937 |
The Hassock for Wingspread
by Frank Lloyd Wright |
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