- 1943 in science
The year 1943 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Computer science
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May 17 - TheUnited States Army contracts with theUniversity of Pennsylvania 's Moore School to develop theENIAC .* Development of the
Colossus computer by British to break German encryption.Psychology
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Abraham Maslow proposes the "Hierarchy of Needs" theory ofpsychology in his paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" (1943).Awards
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Nobel Prize s
** Physics -Otto Stern
** Chemistry -George de Hevesy
** Medicine -Carl Peter Henrik Dam ,Edward Adelbert Doisy ,Gerhard Domagk Births
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June 6 -Richard Smalley (d. 2005), Nobel laureate inchemistry (1996 ) for the discovery of a new form of carbon,buckminsterfullerene .Deaths
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January 5 -George Washington Carver (b. 1860), Americanbotanist .
*January 7 -Nikola Tesla (b. 1856),inventor .
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