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TIME Magazine: Donald W. Douglas
(TIME Cover: May the 23rd, 1938)
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Famous people born on the 23rd of May: |
1052 - King Philip I of France (d. 1108)
1100 - Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161)
1734 - Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician/hypnotist (d.1815)
1917 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (invented the strange attractor notion and coined the term butterfly effect)
1933 - Joan Collins, English actress
1951 - Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
1967 - Phil Selway, English drummer (Radiohead)
1972 - Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian race car driver
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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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