* 1948: Chic Young, Blondie

Chic Young received the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Blondie in 1948, only one of many awards.

Young's first sole credit as director ( and also Christopher Lee's film debut ) was Corridor of Mirrors ( 1948 ), an acclaimed film made in France.

The introduction of a Miner ’ s Charter in 1946 instituted a five-day work week for miners and a standardised day wage structure, and in 1948 a Colliery Workers Supplementary Scheme was approved, providing supplementary allowances to disabled coal-workers and their dependants.

Arne Tiselius developed the first sophisticated electrophoretic apparatus in 1937 and some years later he was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize for his work in protein electrophoresis.

These films show strong affinities with the work of Italian neorealists, not least Roberto Rossellini's neorealist trilogy which included Germany Year Zero ( 1948 ), and are concerned primarily with day-to-day life in the devastated Germany and an initial reaction to the events of the Nazi period ( the full horror of which was first experienced by many in documentary footage from liberated concentration camps ).

Information theory is generally considered to have been founded in 1948 by Claude Shannon in his seminal work, " A Mathematical Theory of Communication ".

It was first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ( 1948 ) by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others, and was also prominent in the complementary work Sexual Behavior in the Human Female ( 1953 ).

Whilst Schwitters still created work in an expressionist style into 1919 ( and would continue to paint realist pictures up to his death in 1948 ), the first abstract collages, influenced in particular by recent works by Hans Arp, would appear in late 1918, which Schwitters dubbed Merz after a fragment of found text from the sentence Commerz Und Privatbank in his picture Das Merzbild, Winter 1918 – 19.

His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the first operational electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University which produced the first working stored program electronic computer in 1948, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.

In 1948, Mahlon Haines, a shoe salesman in Hallam, Pennsylvania, built an actual house shaped like a work boot as a form of advertisement.

* The Search ( Director: Fred Zinnemann, Starring: Montgomery Clift ) 1948 Filmed in post-war Berlin: A story which brings to life UNRRA work in 1945 Germany.

As a further insurance measure against both radical designs failing, in July 1947 the Air Ministry issued Specification B. 9 / 48 written around Vickers-Armstrongs ' more conservative design, later named Valiant ; work began in April 1948.

Stephanie Lynn " Stevie " Nicks ( born May 26, 1948 ) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums.

Shannon used Nyquist's approach when he proved the sampling theorem in 1948, but Nyquist did not work on sampling per se.

The work contains a number of allusions and references to the work of French poet and playwright Antonin Artaud ( 1896 – 1948 ), who exerted a strong influence over Foucualt's thought at the time.

As a theory of phonological representation, autosegmental phonology developed a formal account of ideas that had been sketched in earlier work by several linguists, notably Bernard Bloch ( 1948 ), Charles Hockett ( 1955 ) and J. R. Firth ( 1948 ).

Modern archaeological work began in 1948 when Kültepe was excavated by a team from the Turkish Historical Society and the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums.

In 1948 – 49 Miró lived in Barcelona and made frequent visits to Paris to work on printing techniques at the Mourlot Studios and the Atelier Lacourière.

The first fruits of this were his cantatas Le visage nuptial and Le soleil des eaux for female voices and orchestra, both composed in the late 1940s and revised several times since, as well as the Second Piano Sonata of 1948, a well-received 32-minute work that Boulez composed at the age of 23.

In 1948, Strauss wrote his last work, the masterful and haunting Four Last Songs for soprano and orchestra.

His later career included Broadway and television work ; he received a Tony Award in 1948 as Best Actor in a Play.

Their work determined that the universe's background radiation was 2. 7 degrees above absolute zero, just 2. 3 degrees lower than the 1948 prediction.

R. P Winnington-Ingram's review in 1948 praises the work of Euripides, he writes: " On its poetical and dramatic beauties he writes with charm and insight ; on more complex themes he shows equal mastery.

In 1995 the city was awarded the Bronze Medal for Civil Valour in recognition of the hard work done in clearing the region of dangerous unexploded warheads, a task that lasted well into 1948.

After beginning with a series of short documentary films showing artists at work in their studios, as well as a few commercial commissions, Resnais was invited in 1948 to make a film about the paintings of Van Gogh, to coincide with an exhibition that was being mounted in Paris.

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

In 1948, Afranio Do Amaral, the noted Brazilian herpetologist, wrote a technical paper on the giant snakes.

Judicial opinion since the Supreme Court decision on Shelley v. Kraemer ( 1948 ) has rendered racial restrictive covenants unenforcible.

European Ideologies: A Survey of 20th Century Political Ideas ( 1948 ) pp 391 – 481 online edition, on Russia and Bulgaria

* 1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.

Lerner worked with Kurt Weill on the stage musical Love Life ( 1948 ) and Burton Lane on the movie musical Royal Wedding ( 1951 ).

Capp appeared as a regular on The Author Meets the Critics ( 1948 –' 54 ) and made regular, weekly appearances on Today in 1953.

The weapon was initially dubbed KAS-1, then AAM-2, and, from 1948 on, AAM-N-2.

The Bronx once had its own daily newspaper, The Bronx Home News, which started publishing on January 20, 1907 and merged into the New York Post in 1948.

However, in 1948, when the Western Allies extended the currency reform in the Western zones of Germany to the three western sectors of Berlin, the Soviet Union imposed a blockade on the access routes to and from West Berlin, which lay entirely inside Soviet-controlled territory.

I worked on him a good deal in 1947 and 1948, when I first came to know you.

Graham had briefly attended Bob Jones College, and the university conferred an honorary degree on him in 1948.

On April 3, 1948, Wills and the Texas Playboys appeared for the inaugural broadcast of the Louisiana Hayride on KWKH, broadcasting from the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana.

G-AHNP Star Tiger disappeared on January 30, 1948 on a flight from the Azores to Bermuda ; G-AGRE Star Ariel disappeared on January 17, 1949, on a flight from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica.

On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, number NC16002, disappeared while on a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami.

In the 1945-46 session alone, pensions and other benefits were substantially increased, and from 1945 to 1948, over 200 public Acts of Parliament were passed, with eight major pieces of legislation placed on the statute book in 1946 alone.

Attlee was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Queen Mary College on 15 December 1948.

A 200-inch telescope was dedicated on nearby Palomar Mountain in 1948 and remained the world's most powerful optical telescope for over forty years.

They both collaborated on the Zulu-English Dictionary, first published in 1948.

Similar to Robinson, Doby battled racism on and off the field but posted a. 301 batting average in 1948, his first full season.