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TIME Magazine: Louis A. Johnson
(TIME Cover: August the 22nd, 1938)
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Famous people born on the 24th of August: |
1198 - King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
1358 - King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
1787 - James Weddell, Antarctica explorer (d. 1834)
1865 - King Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927)
1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
1929 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (d. 2004)
1947 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
1948 - Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
1951 - Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize winning author
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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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