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William J Peterson 1897 - 1991

William J Peterson was born on January 24, 1897, and died at age 94 years old on December 23, 1991. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember William J Peterson.
William J Peterson
January 24, 1897
December 23, 1991
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  • 01/24
    1897

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    January 24, 1897
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  • 12/23
    1991

    Death

    December 23, 1991
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    William J Peterson lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 94.
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In 1897, in the year that William J Peterson was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1900, he was merely 3 years old when the German physicist Max Planck formulated an energy theory, postulating the existence of "quanta," which lays the groundwork for the quantum theory of modern physics. In December, he introduced a paper on the Planck postulate which stated that E=hv - the energy of a photon is proportional to its frequency times a constant. Planck won a Nobel Prize in 1918 for his work in theoretical Physics.
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