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Hace 6 horas · Early life Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig Jr. was born June 19, 1903, at 1994 Second Avenue (according to his birth certificate) in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan ; he weighed almost 14 pounds (6.4 kg) at birth. He was the second of four children of German immigrants Christina Foch (1881–1954) and Heinrich Gehrig (1867–1946). Christina was born in 1881 in Wilster, Schleswig-Holstein, a ...
Hace 1 día · Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (/ ˈ s t r ɔː z / STRAWZ; January 31, 1896 – January 21, 1974) was an American government official, businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer.He was one of the original members of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1946 and he served as the commission's chair in the 1950s. Strauss was a major figure in the development of nuclear weapons ...
