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November 12th, 1948...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Buttons and Bows"
by Dinah Shore

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Dr. Robert Oppenheimer

(TIME Cover: November the 8th, 1948)

 Famous people born on the 12th of November:

1840 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
1866 - Sun Yat-sen, first President of the Republic of China (d. 1925)
1915 - Roland Barthes, French critic and writer (d. 1980)
1929 - Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress (d. 1982)
1936 - Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
1945 - Neil Young, Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician
1961 - Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast

 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1948


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


     
Oscar of the best picture in 1948

Hamlet
directed by Laurence Olivier
with Laurence Olivier (Hamlet) and Jean Simmons (Ophelia)

Designed in 1948

The Revolving Chair, model no. 4876
by Edward Wormley

 
 
 
     

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