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TIME Magazine: Robert W. Wood
(TIME Cover: June the 20th, 1938)
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Famous people born on the 24th of June: |
1340 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)
1900 - Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945)
1948 - Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player (Yes)
1949 - John Illsley, British bassist (Dire Straits)
1961 - Curt Smith, musician and songwriter (Tears for Fears)
1970 - Glenn Medeiros, American singer
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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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