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Gerard Corkum 1901 - 1976

Gerard Corkum of Orlando, Orange County, FL was born on June 26, 1901, and died at age 74 years old in May 1976.
Gerard Corkum
Orlando, Orange County, FL 32804
June 26, 1901
May 1976
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Gerard Corkum's History: 1901 - 1976

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  • 06/26
    1901

    Birthday

    June 26, 1901
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  • 05/dd
    1976

    Death

    May 1976
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    Gerard Corkum lived 4 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1901, in the year that Gerard Corkum was born, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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In 1915, at the age of merely 14 years old, Gerard was alive when the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.
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