Facts About Max Born, the German Physicist Honored With a Google Doodle on His 135th Birthday

A Google Doodle depicting German physicist Max Born appeared on the search website on Dec. 11, 2017 to recognize the Nobel Prize laureate's 135th birthday. Courtesy of Google. By Grace Donnelly. 1:34 PM EST. Monday's Google Doodle honors physicist and mathematician Max Born, who was
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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Warns That Nuclear War Is One 'Tantrum Away'. “We have avoided nuclear war not through prudent leadership but good fortune,” said Beatrice Fihn, at the award ceremony in Oslo. By Nina Golgowski
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Residential property prices along the new Luas Cross City line have risen at more than twice the rate of homes along other Dublin rail lines in the last year, according to new research. Estate agency website Daft.ie found buyers living on the Dart line still pay the most for their homes, and houses along
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Wall Street economists are telling investors to brace for the biggest tightening of monetary policy in more than a decade. With the world economy heading into its strongest period since 2011, Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. predict average interest rates across advanced economies will climb
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Zhengye International Holdings Company Limited (SEHK:3363), a packaging company based in China, saw significant share price volatility over the past couple of months on the SEHK, rising to the highs of HK$2.48 and falling to the lows of HK$1.98. This high level of volatility gives investors the
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Cboe Global Markets Inc. started letting traders buy and sell bitcoin futures Sunday evening. Though the exchange operator warned volume might be low — new futures typically take time to build a following — almost 600 contracts traded in the first hour. As of 7:36 p.m. New York time, contracts expiring in
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Theresa May, U.K. prime minister, pauses during a news conference at the European Commission building in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday, Dec. 8, 2017. The U.K. and the European Union struck a deal to unlock divorce negotiations, opening the way for talks on what businesses are keenest to nail
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Low interest rates have meant that bad debt in the residential market is close to all-time lows. The value of residential mortgages written off by banks and building societies in the last year has hit a 12-year low, research from peer-to-peer platform Lendy shows. Bank of England data show that UK lenders
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A Bloomberg analysis of decades of election results across 22 European countries reveals that support for populist radical-right parties is higher than it's been at any time over the past 30 years. These parties won 16 percent of the overall vote on average in the most recent parliamentary election in each
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The firm owned 2,128,861 shares of the basic materials company's stock after purchasing an additional 60,706 shares during the period. Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. owned 0.52% of International Paper worth $120,962,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Other hedge
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Private debt firm Shard Credit Partners is seeking to raise £250 million for its first direct-lending fund aimed at mid-sized U.K. companies, its chief executive officer has told Private Equity News. The firm, a division of London-based investment advisory Shard Capital Partners LLP, made a first close for the
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London's property market is in for another rough ride next year, according to Rightmove Plc. Home values in the capital are likely to fall another 2 percent in 2018 after a 1.8 percent decline this year, the real estate website operator said Monday. In December alone, prices dropped 3.7 percent in London
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In the US, the NAR (National Association of Realtors) releases a monthly report on the existing home sales (ITB) market. The report includes important
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Investors Title Company is an insurance holding company. The company has market cap of $368.01 million. The Company, through its subsidiaries,
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History often repeats itself. Is AT&T's latest dilemma a result of its own miscalculation or is it because of Donald Trump? In late 1980, the U.S.
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DBRS Limited (DBRS) confirmed the ratings on the following classes of Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2014-LC14 issued
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Mortgage rates fell modestly today, with bond market strength both before and after the release of the Fed Minutes (a more detailed account of the Fed
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However, Hiromi Yamaoka—Head of the Bank of Japan's Payment and Settlement Systems Department—is not optimistic about the future of digital
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As Capital Bank and First Tennessee Bank's holding corporation, First Horizon, near the completion of their proposed merger, the immediate future for
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Winfield Associates Inc. raised its position in Crown Castle International … real estate investment trust's stock after buying an additional 1,972 shares
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