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Otto Diels

Born: January 23, 1876
Sciencea German chemist. His most notable work was done with Kurt Alder on the Diels–Alder reaction, a method for diene synthesis.more…Endre Ady
Born: November 22, 1877
Lit.Westa turn-of-the-century Hungarian poet and journalist. Regarded by many as the greatest Hungarian poet of the 20th centurymore…René Magritte
Born: November 21, 1898
Art.Westa Belgian surrealist artist, who became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images.more…Emmy Noether
Born: March 23, 1882
Sciencea German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She discovered Noether's First and Second Theorem, which are fundamental in mathematical physics.more…Juan de la Cierva
Born: September 21, 1895
Sciencea Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self taught aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of a rotorcraft called Autogiro,more…Cato Maximilian Guldberg
Born: August 11, 1836
Sciencea Norwegian mathematician and chemist. Guldberg is best known as a pioneer in physical chemistry.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.