Historical place archive

Philadelphia in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Philadelphia in Switzerland. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1935–1935

Historical events in Philadelphia

1935

15 May 1935
Franklin Medal
Albert Einstein · Physics

Receives the Franklin Medal in recognition of his work in relativity and the photoelectric effect.

Provenance

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