From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 15/Jul/2018

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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. Diane Kruger

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Diane Kruger is an American actress who is born as a German and is also a former fashion model.

She has acted in movies like Troy, National Treasure and it's sequel, Unknown, The Bridge.

She started her career as a model and was part of magazines and brands like Vogue, D&G, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Giorgio Armani.

She has been honoured by France government by making her Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014.

She is a winner of Satellite Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Cannes Film Festival Best Actress.

2. Robert Bruce Merrifield

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Robert Bruce Merrifield was an American biochemist who is the inventor of solid phase peptide synthesis.

He started his career at Philip. R Park Research foundation by helping on the growth experiments on synthetic amino acids diets for animals and later developed microbiological methods for quantification of pyrimidines.

For his contributions to biochemistry and invention of solid phase peptide synthesis, he was honoured with Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984.

3. Forest Whitaker

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Forest Whitaker is an American actor, director, producer who is known for his character study.

He is part of movies like The Great Debaters, Platoon, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, The Buttler and Arrival.

He has also acted in award winning movies like The Last King of Scotland, Black Panther, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

He also made his theatre debut in 2016 with play Hughie and has previously acted on television series.

He is a winner of an Academy Award, an BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

4. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

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Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the Sheikh of Dubai who is Vice President and Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates.

He is known for his UAE Vision 2021 which aims at making UAE as one of the best countries in the world by the year 2021.

He is also known for his reforms towards the growth of Dubai and for launching brands like Emirates Airline, DP World(related to Dubai Ports).

He also overlooked the construction of Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.

5. Leon M. Lederman

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Leon M. Lederman is an American physicist who is the founder if Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy.

He is known for his discoveries of muon nutrino and bottom quark which are all related to charge of electrons.

Worked as professor at various universities and also worked as Director of Fermilab.

He was honoured with Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger.

He is also a winner of Wolf Prize and National Medal of Science.

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