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: Edwin P. Hubble
(TIME Cover: February the 9th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 10th of February: |
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
1910 - Georges Pire, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
1930 - Robert Wagner, American actor
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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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