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S Korean Army seen soon capable of repelling aggressor; fighting qualities and training discussed
Peron scores skeptics; Richter repeats claims, int; silent on temperatures attained; says pilot test, Feb 16, left no secondary radiation; Maj Gen Groves reserves judgment
Atty Gen McGrath and J E Hoover to testify; extension on com debated; Tobey urges Dewey come down for 'talkfest,'
NYC Easter parade styles described; illus
conf to discuss emergency cooperation
1951Željko Pavličević, Croatian professional basketball coach and former professional player[†]
Željko Pavličević is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player. He currently serves as the head coach for Eastern in ASEAN Basketball League.
1951Carl Wieman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Carl Edwin Wieman is an American physicist and educationist at Stanford University, and currently the A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University. In 1995, while at the University of Colorado Boulder, he and Eric Allin Cornell produced the first true Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) an ultracold state of matter; and, in 2001, they and Wolfgang Ketterle were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Wieman currently holds a joint appointment as Professor of Physics and Professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Education, as well as the DRC Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering. In 2020, Wieman was awarded the Yidan Prize in Education Research for "his contribution in developing new techniques and tools in STEM education".
1951James F. Hinkle, American banker and politician, 6th Governor of New Mexico (born 1864)[†]
James Fielding Hinkle was an American banker, politician and the sixth governor of New Mexico.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]