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TIME Magazine: John G. Bates
(TIME Cover: February the 21st, 1938)
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Famous people born on the 21st of February: |
1688 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
1728 - Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
1875 - Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian (d. 1997
1885 - Sacha Guitry, Russian dramatist (d. 1957)
1927 - Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer
1933 - Nina Simone, American singer (d. 2003)
1937 - King Harald V of Norway
1949 - Jerry Harrison, American musician (Talking Heads)
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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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