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: Robert Schuman
(TIME Cover: March the 1st, 1948)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of March: |
1455 - King John II of Portugal (d. 1495)
1831 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1897)
1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (d. 1922)
1911 - Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
1948 - Snowy White, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd)
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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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