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TIME Magazine: Clifford Odets
(TIME Cover: December the 5th, 1938)
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Famous people born on the 6th of December: |
1285 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)
1421 - King Henry VI of England (d. 1471)
1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
1792 - King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
1948 - Keke Rosberg, Finnish race car driver
1956 - Peter Buck, American guitarist (R.E.M.)
1961 - David Lovering, American drummer (the Pixies)
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 |
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Enrico Fermi
1901-1954
for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons
Italy
Rome University - Rome, Italy
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Designed in 1938 |
The Ankle-strap sandal
by Salvatore Ferragamo |
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