From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 21/Apr/2018

Hi Steemians,

This is an effort to provide some information on Five selected famous personalities born on this day.

Courtesy of this information goes to onthisday.com, famousbirthdays.com and wikipedia.org and image source is mentioned under "Source" just below each image.

1. Queen Elizabeth II

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Queen Elizabeth II is the queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms and is world's longest reigning queen regnant and female head of the state.

Queen Elizabeth II is known for her charity works and is a patron of 600+ organizations and she is fond of dogs.

She was listed as wealthiest by £360 million making her 329^th richest person in the UK in 2017.

It's also notable that she received an honorary BAFTA for her patronage of the film industry.

2. Percy Williams Bridgman

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Percy Williams Bridgman was an American physicist who mainly worked on high pressure related physics and wrote on scientific method and other aspects of philosophy of science.

For his contribution to physics of high pressures, he was awarded with Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946.

He was a student and then worked as a professor at Harvard University until his retirement.

Besides Nobel Prize in Physics, he won Rumford Prize, Roozeboom Fund from Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Comstock Prize from National Academy of Sciences.

He was a Foreign Member of Royal Society of London.

3. Charlotte Bronte

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Charlotte Bronte was an English novelist and poet whose novels are considered as the Classics of English Literature.

Bronte was known for her novel Jane Eyre and her first novel The Professor, which got published after her death.

Her other publications include The Spell, The Secret, Lily Hart, The Foundling, The Green Dwarf, My Angria and the Angrians, Albion and Marina.

4. Paul Karrer

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Paul Karrer was a Swiss organic chemist who use to research on vitamins and metal compounds along with plant pigments.

He published many papers related to his work.

He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937 along with Walter Haworth for his research on vitamins.

Prestigious Paul Karrer Gold Medal and Lecture was established in his honor in 1959.

5. John Goddard

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John Goddard was an West Indian all-round cricketer who was captain of West Indies team in 22 of the 27 test matches he played and won 8 and lost 7 and 7 were drawn under his captaincy.

He was an useful right arm medium pace bowler and middle order batsman.

He was awarded with Order of the British Empire.