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It was an engineer who invented the modern bikini. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_R%C3%A9ard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_R%C3%A9ard
The bikini, which shocked when it appeared on French beaches in 1947, was a Greco-Roman invention.[1] The modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946. He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon test on July 1, 1946. The reasoning was that the burst of excitement created by it would be like a nuclear device.
Louis Réard (1897 ? 1984) was a French automobile engineer who invented bikini in 1946.
