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He was born on 26 March 1903 in
Baltimore, Maryland. His parents were the photographer Ferdinand Henry (* 1878 in New York) and Virginia (Graft) Brickwedde (* 1874 in Illinois). He was married to physicist Marion Langhorne Howard Birckwedde.
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