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Piet Hein
Piet Hein was a Danish polymath, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym Kumbel, meaning "tombstone". His short poems, known as gruks or grooks, first started to appear in the daily newspaper Politiken shortly after the German occupation of Denmark in April 1940 under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell". He also invented the Soma cube and the board game Hex.
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science · Danish polymath (1905–1996) · mathematician · poet · writer · physicist · inventor · designer · artist · also Piet Hein, Piet Hein (scientist), Kumbel, Hein
Born 16 December 1905 · Died 17 April 1996 · Q359592
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2016· 1 entry
Published “The Perseus computational platform for comprehensive analysis of (prote)omics data” in Nature Methods — cited 8,425 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Dezeen: Piet Hein Eek begins long-term collaboration with IKEA
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2014· 1 entry
Published “Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ” in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics — cited 5,195 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Inhabitat: Piet Hein Eek Reclaims Old Beams to Create Rustic Yet Modern Designs
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1996· 3 entries
Died 1996-04-17.
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“Variant translation: Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.”
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“After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity — now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin. Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.”
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Odense University (1991).
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Ingenio et arti (1985).
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Läkerol's Culture Award (1978).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary craftsman (1975).
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Doctor of Humane Letters presented by Yale University (1972).
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1969· 1 entry
Won Emil Aarestrup Medal (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
"Sweden was out because I am not Swedish, but Danish
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1959· 1 entry
City planners in Stockholm, Sweden announced a design challenge for a roundabout in their city square Sergels Torg
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1924· 1 entry
Studied at University of Copenhagen (1924).
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1905· 1 entry
Born 1905-12-16.
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