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Dail passes bill; Min Boland tells of money coming to IRA from U S; Premier de Valera blames partition for situation; others s; Detective J Roche killed trying to question IRA suspect, Cork; Easter revolt plan reptd
possible German help to USSR seen
Finnish fliers reptd raiding Liinahamari, northern supply base
Gets lr from Sec Edison urging naval bill passage
1940Brian Josephson, Welsh physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Brian David Josephson is a British theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at the University of Cambridge. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever for his discovery of the Josephson effect, made in 1962 when he was a 22 year-old Ph.D. student at Cambridge.
1940Gao Xingjian, Chinese novelist, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré and later French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator, screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.