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TIME Magazine: Cosmo G. Lang
(TIME Cover: May the 24th, 1937)
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Famous people born on the 24th of May: |
15 BC - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander (d. 19)
1686 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and engineer (d. 1736)
1743 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
1819 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
1941 - Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter
1945 - Priscilla Presley, American actress
1969 - Rich Robinson, American musician (Black Crowes)
1995 - Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein
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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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