- 1947 in science
The year 1947 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Anthropology
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August 7 -Thor Heyerdahl 's balsa-wood raft, theKon-Tiki , smashes into thereef atRaroia in theTuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 4300-mile (6900-km) journey across thePacific Ocean , proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled fromSouth America .Computer science
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July 29 - After being shut off onNovember 9 ,1946 for a refurbishment,ENIAC , one of the world's first digitalcomputer s, is turned on after a memory upgrade. It will remain in continuous operation untilOctober 2 ,1955 .Physics
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June 2 - TheShelter Island Conference on the Foundations ofQuantum Mechanics convenes inNew York .Awards
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Nobel Prize s
** Physics -Edward Victor Appleton
** Chemistry -Sir Robert Robinson
** Medicine -Carl Ferdinand Cori ,Gerty Cori ,Bernardo Houssay Births
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January 29 -Linda B. Buck , biologist, Nobel prize winner, 2004Deaths
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February 25 -Friedrich Paschen (b. 1865),physicist .
*October 4 -Max Planck (b. 1858), theoretical physicist.
*December 17 -J. N. Brønsted (b. 1879), physicalchemist .
*Godfrey Harold Hardy (b. 1877),mathematician .
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