Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" by Art Mooney
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Reinhold Niebuhr
(TIME Cover: March the 8th, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 10th of March: |
1415 - Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462)
1503 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1564)
1845 - Alexander III of Russia (d. 1894)
1957 - Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist
1958 - Sharon Stone, American actress
1963 - Neneh Cherry, Swedish 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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