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Charles I of Austria

Charles I of Austria

18871922

Last monarch of Austria-Hungary and the final ruler of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, who reigned during the closing years of World War I

Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Schrödinger

18871961

Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist who developed the Schrödinger equation and coined 'quantum entanglement,' sharing the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to atomic theory

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

18871970

Nobel laureate in Literature and central figure of modern Hebrew literature, known for his profoundly characteristic narrative art depicting Jewish life