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TIME Magazine: Joseph E. Davies
(TIME Cover: March the 15th, 1937)
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Famous people born on the 20th of March: |
43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
1725 - Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)
1737 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (d. 1809)
1811 - Napoleon II of France (d. 1832)
1957 - Spike Lee, American film director
1964 - Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
1972 - Alexander Kapranos, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
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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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