When Gisela Teresa Klein was born on 5 April 1922, in Collegeville Township, Stearns, Minnesota, United States, her father, George Edward Klein, was 34 and her mother, Theresa Magdalene Meyer, was 33. She married Lester Alden Lawrence about 1943, in Galesburg, Knox, Illinois, United States. She died on 20 April 1995, in Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Knoxville Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox, Illinois, United States.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Pioneer Hi-Bred International was the leader company experimenting with hybridization of corn and other seeds for agriculture in the world. It helped make different kinds of crop able to grow in harsh conditions so that other parts of the world would be able to farm and become self-sufficient. It was bought out by DuPont in 1999 and has continued to help struggling countries around the world.
On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small band of scientists and engineers demonstrated that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps could produce controlled heat. The space chosen for the first nuclear fission reactor was a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago.
German, Flemish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic); Dutch (also De Klein): from Middle High German, German, Dutch klein ‘small’, or Yiddish kleyn. This was a nickname for a person of small stature, but is also often found as a distinguishing name for a junior male, usually a son, in German names such as Kleinhans and Kleinpeter . The surname of German origin is also found in many other European countries, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Czechia, and Slovakia. It is often a German translation of corresponding Slavic surnames, for example Czech and Slovak Malý (see Maly ). Compare Klain , Klien , and Kline .
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