Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Ballerina" by Vaughn Monroe
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: W. Stuart Symington
(TIME Cover: January the 19th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 25th of January: |
750 - Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor
1794 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
1882 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
1917 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2003)
1955 - Terry Chimes, co-founder and drummer of the British punk rock band The Clash
1981 - Alicia Keys, American singer and musician
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1948 |
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Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
1902-1971
for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins
Sweden
Uppsala University - Uppsala, Sweden
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1948 |
Hamlet
directed by Laurence Olivier
with Laurence Olivier (Hamlet) and Jean Simmons (Ophelia)
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Designed in 1948 |
The Revolving Chair, model no. 4876
by Edward Wormley |
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