From History: Today's Famous Birthdays 12/Jul/2018 - Part 1

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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. James Rodríguez

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James Rodríguez is a Colombian professional football player who plays for German club Bayern Munich and Colombian national football team and is a winner of Golden Boot in 2014 edition of FIFA World Cup.

He plays as an attacking midfielder and winger and is regarded as one of the best among his generation.

Because of his technique, playmaking skills and vision, he is often regarded as a successor of his fellow team member Carlos Valderrama.

Because of his progress as a 20 year old, he was on duty of senior national football team and was part of 2014 FIFA world cup where he was the top scorer and won Golden Boot Award.

He was selected for the Cup's All Star Team after his performance in 2014 World Cup.

2. Malala Yousafzai

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Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist who mainly voices for female education and is the youngest recipient of Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17.

She started writing blogs about the issues in her region and her life as a Pakistani girl and got into fame as part of her blogs published on BBC Urdu.

Her blog works recognized by famous activist Desmond Tutu and she was nominated for International Children's Peace Prize

She was always on radar of terrorist groups because of her activism and for supporting education to females but escaped with life threatening health issue when she along with few other girls were shot while traveling from school to home.

She has been a recipient of Sukharov Prize and an honorary Canadian citizenship.

3. Sundar Pichai

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Sundar Pichai is an Indian American business executive and current CEO of Google Inc.

He completed his bachelors from IIT Kharagpur, India and then an M.S from Stanford University along with a MBA from University f Pennsylvania.

He started working with google on product management and innovations and is among those who contributed to google chrome, google drive and development of gmail and google maps.

He rose from being a developer to CEO within a period of 11 years and was appointed as CEO in 2015.

4. Michelle Rodriguez

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Michelle Rodriguez is an American actress who is famous for her role as a boxer in movie Girlfight.

She has been part of other movies such as The Fast and the Furious and it's 5 additional sequels, Resident Evil, S.W.A.T, Avatar.

She has been even part of television series, music videos and also provided her voice to many video games.

She is a winner of Independent Spirit Award, Gotham Award and Screen Actors Guild Award.

5. Willis Lamb

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Willis Lamb was an American physicist who worked mainly on hydrogen spectrum and was known for Lamb Shift(is a difference in energy between two energy levels 2S1/2 and 2P1/2 (in term symbol notation) of the hydrogen atom which was not predicted by the Dirac equation, according to which these states should have the same energy. Courtesy: wikipedia.org).

He worked as a professor at University of Arizona and at Oxford University.

He was a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was co-honoured with Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 along with Polykarp Kusch.

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