Piet Hein (scientist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Piet Hein (scientist)

Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1905

Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 17-Apr-1996

Profession: writer, poet, physicist, mathematician, inventor

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Piet Hein (16 December 1905 – 17 April 1996) was a Danish polymath (mathematician, inventor, designer, author and poet), often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym Kumbel, meaning "tombstone".
His short poems, known as gruks or grooks (Danish: gruk), first started to appear in the daily newspaper Politiken shortly after the German occupation of Denmark in April 1940 under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell".