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Robert Florey
Robert Florey (14 September 1900 – 16 May 1979) was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and actor.
Born as Robert Fuchs in Paris, he became an orphan at an early age and was then raised in Switzerland. In 1920 he worked at first as a film journalist, then as an assistant and extra in featurettes from Louis Feuillade. Florey moved to the United States in 1921. As a director, Florey's most productive decades were the 1930s and 1940s, working on
, draft version of Ada (programming language), a strongly typed, comb-structured language with exception handlers, for embedded systems.
Conservation.
- April 5 – First stage of Kakadu National Park declared in Australia.
Earth sciences.
- The RISE project first discovers hydrothermal vents known as 'black smokers', on a mid-ocean ridge in the Pacific Ocean.
History of science.
- Robert Gwyn Macfarlane publishes "Howard Florey: The Making of a Great Scientist".
Mathematics