September 29th, 1999...

Today is Wednesday !

TIME Magazine: New Silicon Valley, The

(TIME Cover: September the 27th, 1999)

106 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (d. 48 BC)
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
1703 - François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
1864 - Alexandra Kitchin, British model for Lewis Carroll (d. 1925)
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director
1932 - Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy
1943 - Lech Walesa, President of Poland, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1951 - Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile

Günter Blobel
1936-

for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell

USA
Rockefeller University - New York, NY, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Photo: nobelprize.org