Word: ohm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inveterate fisherman, he contrived a one-man kickless harpoon gun to spear whales; a window-shopper, he invented a one-piece display lamp and reflector for shopkeepers, then founded a successful electric company to produce the unit, though he admittedly did not know the difference between an ohm and a kilowatt. He even found time to write a book on wildflowers...
...greatest achievements of Kepler and Darwin, Ohm and Marie Curie fall within or near Dr. Lehman's age ranges. But Galileo was a partial exception: he seems to have done as well...
Died. Emil Jannings, 62, hulking Swiss-born German cinemactor who won Hollywood's first "Oscar" (The Way of All Flesh, 1928); of cancer; at his lakeside home in Austria. Forsaking the U.S. when talkies exposed his accent in 1929, Jannings made Nazi propaganda (Ohm Kriiger), but was denazified...