Marquis Who's Who Millennium Magazine

13 A Marquis Who's Who Magazine 1 9 4 9 Primo Levi, an Italian novelist and a prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camps, is liberated by the Red Army 1945 Edwin Land, a U.S. scientist, demonstrates a new device, the Polaroid camera, to the Optical Society of America 1947 Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, delivers his famous "Iron Curtain" speech 1946 Fred Hoyle, a British astronomer, puts forward a "steady-state" theory of the universe, in which matter is continually created 1948 Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. author of "Annie Allen," describes in narrative verse the life of an African-American girl in the contemporary United States 1949