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In 1921 Albert A. Michelson made the first measurements of a stellar diameter using an interferometer on the Hooker telescope.
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File: Albert Einstein ( Nobel ). png | Albert Einstein ( 1879-1955 ): revolutionized physics due to his theories of special and general relativity, described Brownian motion, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect, formulated mass – energy equivalence formula E = mc < sup > 2 </ sup >, published more than 300 scientific papers and over 150 non-scientific works, considered the " Father of Modern Physics "
On June 13, 1921, President Harding appointed Albert D. Lasker chairman of the United States Shipping Board.
Albert Einstein rose to public prominence during his years in Berlin, being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.
Prince Albert, Duke of York – " Bertie " to the family – was the second son of King George V. He initially proposed to Elizabeth in 1921, but she turned him down, being " afraid never, never again to be free to think, speak and act as I feel I really ought to ".
In July 1921, at the Pasteur Institute in Lille, Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin discovered the first anti-tuberculosis vaccine, known as BCG (" Bacille de Calmette et Guérin ").
In 1887, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz discovered the photoelectric effect that was explained in 1905 by Albert Einstein ( Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 ).
* Albert H. Vestal, republican U. S. House of Representatives and House Majority Whip 1921 to 1937 was born and raised in Frankton, Indiana
Albert James " Alan " Freed ( December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965 ), also known as Moondog, was an American disc jockey.
" Albert Ammons and Meade ' Lux ' Lewis claim that ' The Fives ,' in 1921 and published in 1922 the Thomas brothers ' musical composition, deserves much credit for the development of modern boogie-woogie.
Historically, the photoelectric effect is associated with Albert Einstein, who relied upon the phenomenon to establish the fundamental principle of quantum mechanics, in 1905, an accomplishment for which Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize.
Camille Saint-Saëns set poems of Samain to music: " Six Mélodies sur des poésies d ' Albert Samain " op. 31 ( 1902-1906 ; orchestrated 1921 )
The first manager of Mitchelstown Co-operative Creameries, was Eamon Roche ; a Dairy Science Diploma graduate of the Albert College in Dublin ( now called Dublin City University-DCU ) who had been active in the Irish War of Independence from Britain between 1916 – 1921.
In 1921, Weizmann went along with Albert Einstein for a fund-raiser to establish the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and support the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Twenty-one Nobel Prizes have been awarded to students or professors of the Institute in the past, the most famous of which is Albert Einstein in 1921, and the most recent is Richard F. Heck in 2010.
Born in Leipzig to a Jewish family, Germany, he was educated at the Albert Gymnasium in that city from 1921 to 1929 and went on to study medicine at the University of Leipzig.
Located in Memorial Park, at the corner of Albert and Chapel streets, it was unveiled on Sunday, October 30, 1921 and was erected by the citizens of Thorold to: " Honour the Memory of the Men of Thorold, who gave their lives for the cause of freedom in the great war, and in grateful remembrance of those who shared its dangers.
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Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.
Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.
Those were his only interludes behind bars, although he collected four more charges on his police record in 1921 and 1922, three for burglary and one for robbery.
Seidel joined the department in 1925 as a division fire warden after graduation in 1921 from the University of Michigan with a degree in forestry and employment with private lumber companies.
( Rossum's Universal Robots ) ( 1921 ) – the play that introduced the word robot to the world – were organic artificial humans, the word " robot " has come to primarily refer to mechanical humans, animals, and other beings.
Warhol's father immigrated to the United States in 1914, and his mother joined him in 1921, after the death of Warhol's grandparents.
According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.
* 1921 – Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
There is another statement which is not totally clear made by Lord Darnley in 1921 about the timing of the presentation of the Urn.
The 1921 first published photo of The Ashes Urn: Its Origin and History | the Urn in the Illustrated London News.
During Darnley ’ s lifetime there was little public knowledge of the urn, and no record of a published photograph exists before 1921.
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