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November 3rd, 1937...

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TIME Magazine: Ernest O. Lawrence

(TIME Cover: November the 1st, 1937)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of November:

39 - Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
1604 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)
1618 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)
1852 - Meiji Emperor, Japanese emperor (d. 1912)
1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1900 - Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978)
1901 - Léopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
1901 - André Malraux, French writer (d. 1976)
1921 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
1959 - Hal Hartley, American film director and writer

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1937


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


     
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)

Designed in 1937

The Hassock for Wingspread
by Frank Lloyd Wright

 
 
 
     

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