- 1946 in science
The year 1946 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Computer science
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ENIAC , the first non-classified all-electronic computer, becomes operationalAwards
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Nobel Prize s
** Physics -Percy Williams Bridgman
** Chemistry -James B. Sumner ,John Howard Northrop ,Wendell Meredith Stanley
** Medicine -Hermann Joseph Muller Births
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May 11 -Robert Jarvik , co-inventor of theJarvik-7 artificial heart .
*June 22 -Kay Redfield Jamison
*June 24 -Ellison Onizuka (d. 1986),astronaut .
*July 2 -Richard Axel , physiologist, Nobel prize winner
*September 7 -Francisco Varela (d. 2001),biologist andphilosopher Deaths
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March 23 -Gilbert N. Lewis (b. 1875),chemist . First to isolatedeuterium .
*May 2 -Simon Flexner (b. 1863),pathologist andbacteriologist .
*June 14 -John Logie Baird (b. 1888),inventor .
*September 16 -James Hopwood Jeans (b. 1877),mathematician andscientist .
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