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Raimund Graf zu Erbach-Fürstenau

2 Apr 1951 – 2 Sep 2017

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A life in time

  1. 2 Apr 1951

    Born

  2. 2 Sep 2017

    Dies, aged 66

During his lifetime

He lived through 7 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like.

General history, not a record about the family: each item says where it comes from.

The 1950s · Raimund is born

Around the world1955

The polio vaccine

Jonas Salk’s vaccine was declared safe; polio, which paralysed thousands of children a year, began to retreat.

Sputnik. The Soviet Union put the first satellite in orbit, and the space race began.Around the world · 1957

Sputnik. The Soviet Union put the first satellite in orbit, and the space race began.

Andrey Butko · CC BY-SA 3.0

Around the world1953

The double helix

Watson and Crick, using Rosalind Franklin’s images, described the structure of DNA.