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Erdos, Paul
1913 - Born on the 26th of March in Budapest, Hungary.
1934 - He was awarded a doctorate in mathematics.
- He moved to Manchester, England to be a guest lecturer.
1938 - He accepted his first American position as a scholarship holder at Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey, United States.
1952 - He was denied with Hungarian citizenship during the McCarthy communist.
1971 - He took amphetamines.
1973 - He exiled himself voluntarily from Hungary as a principled protest against his country's
policy of denying entry to Israelis.
1996 - He died on the 20th of September because of heart attack while attending a conference
in Warsaw, Poland.
1934 - He was awarded a doctorate in mathematics.
- He moved to Manchester, England to be a guest lecturer.
1938 - He accepted his first American position as a scholarship holder at Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey, United States.
1952 - He was denied with Hungarian citizenship during the McCarthy communist.
1971 - He took amphetamines.
1973 - He exiled himself voluntarily from Hungary as a principled protest against his country's
policy of denying entry to Israelis.
1996 - He died on the 20th of September because of heart attack while attending a conference
in Warsaw, Poland.
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