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TIME Magazine: King Christian X
(TIME Cover: May the 17th, 1937)
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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 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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