1949 in science

1949 in science

The year 1949 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Computer science

* June - EDSAC, the first stored-program computer, begins operation at Cambridge University.

Chemistry

* Radiocarbon dating technique discovered by Willard Libby and his colleagues at the University of Chicago — work for which Libby received the Nobel prize in 1960.

Meteorology

* January 11 - Los Angeles, California receives its first recorded snowfall.

Awards

* Nobel Prizes
** Physics - Yukawa Hideki
** Chemistry - William Francis Giauque
** Medicine - Walter Rudolf Hess, Antonio Caetano De Abreu Freire Egas Moniz

Births

* February 19 - Danielle Bunten Berry (d. 1998), also known as Dan Bunten, software developer.
* April 5 - Judith Resnik (d. 1986), astronaut.
* May 24 - Tomaž Pisanski, mathematician


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