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Piet Hein
Mathematician, Author
1905 – 1996
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Who was Piet Hein?
Piet Hein was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone". His short poems, known as gruks or grooks, first started to appear in the daily newspaper "Politiken" shortly after the Nazi occupation in April 1940 under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell".
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- Born
- Dec 16, 1905
Copenhagen - Nationality
- Denmark
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- University of Copenhagen
- Niels Bohr Institute
- Died
- Apr 17, 1996
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on July 23, 2013
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