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The year 1946 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
- January 10 – The United States Army Signal Corps' Project Diana bounces radarwaves off the Moon.
- giant impact hypothesis to account for formation of the Moon.[1]
Biology
- November 10 – Peter Scott opens the Slimbridge Wetland Reserve in England.
- December 2 – The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is signed in Washington, D.C. to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry" through establishment of the International Whaling Commission.
- Karl von Frisch publishes "Die Tänze der Bienen" ("The dances of the bees").[2]
- The Condor,[3] a state of extended torpor, approaching hibernation, in a bird, the common poorwill.[4]
Cartography
- The Chamberlin trimetric projection is developed by Wellman Chamberlin for the National Geographic Society.[5]
Chemistry
- The structure of the alkaloid strychnine is determined by English organic chemist Robert Robinson.[6][7][8]
Computer science
- February 14–15 – conditional branching.
- December 11 –
Earth sciences
- age of the Earth, using uranium–lead dating.
Mathematics
- June – Joseph Berkson describes Berkson's Paradox.[11]
Medicine
- July 14 – Dr. Benjamin Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care is first published in New York; it becomes one of the biggest best-sellers of all time.[12]
- Chance Brothers of Smethwick, England, produce the first all-glass syringe with interchangeable barrel and plunger, allowing easy mass-sterilisation of components.
Physics
- January 1 – Atomic Energy Research Establishment established at Harwell, Oxfordshire under John Cockcroft.
- May 21 – hard radiation, making him the second victim of a criticality accidentin history.
- The BBGKY hierarchy of equations for s-particle distribution functions is applied to the derivation of kinetic equations by Nikolay Bogolyubov in a paper received in July 1945 and published in 1946 in Russian[16] and in English.[17] The related kinetic transport theory is considered by John Gamble Kirkwood in a paper[18] received in October 1945 and published in March 1946. The first paper by Max Born and Herbert S. Green considering a general kinetic theory of liquids is received in February 1946 and published on 31 December 1946.[19]
Technology
- July 24 – First Martin-Baker ejection seat live-tested from a jet aircraft over England.[20]
Awards
Births
- February 26 – Ahmed Zewail (died 2016), Egyptian-born "father of femtochemistry", recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- May 11 – Jarvik-7 artificial heart
- June 13 – Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- June 24 – Ellison Onizuka (killed 1986), American astronaut
- July 2 – physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- August 2 – Nigel Hitchin, English mathematician
- August 5 – Shirley Ann Jackson, African American physicist
- August 11 – Marilyn vos Savant, American polymath
- September 7 – philosopher
- September 8 – Aziz Sancar, Turkish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- September 9 – President of the Royal Society
- September 28 – Morinobu Endo, Japanese chemist
- October 14 – clinical psychologist
- October 17 – social psychologist
- December 31 – medical historian
- Faiza Al-Kharafi, Kuwaiti electrochemist
Deaths
- March 8 – Frederick W. Lanchester (born 1868), English automotive engineer.
- March 23 – Gilbert N. Lewis (born 1875), American chemist; first to isolate deuterium.
- March 26 – Gerhard Heilman (born 1859), Danish paleo-ornithologist.
- May 2 – pathologist and bacteriologist.
- June 14 – inventor.
- August 13 – H. G. Wells (born 1866), English novelist and scientific populariser.
- September 16 – James Jeans (born 1877), English mathematician and scientist.
- October 2 – President of Poland.
- October 4 – Barney Oldfield (born 1878), American automobile racer.
- December 2 – aeronautical engineer.
- zoologist.
References
- JSTOR 3301051.
- ^ Österreichische Zoologische Zeitschrift 1: pp. 1–48.
- Chuckawalla Mountains of the Colorado Desert, California. (photographs by Kenneth Middleham)
- ^ Hiltner, Nita (2011-02-20). "A Look Back". The Press-Enterprise. Riverside, California: Enterprise Media. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved 2011-11-15.
- ASIN B000WTCPXE.
- PMID 21012825.
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- PMID 21024272.
- ^ "1946." Britannica.
- The Centre for Computing History. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
- PMID 21001024.
- ^ Meisol, Patricia (17 March 1998). "Echoes from the baby boom appreciation: for 50 years, parents turned to the book by Dr. Benjamin Spock for the most common-sense advice about raising children". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on 2010-05-16. Retrieved 2010-03-31.
- ^ Roach, Mary (2007-03-18). "Girls Will Be Boys". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012. Retrieved 2007-03-25.
- PMID 17751251.
- PMID 13947966.
- ^ Bogoliubov, N. N. (1946). "Kinetic Equations". Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics. 16 (8): 691–702.
- ^ Bogoliubov, N. N. (1946). "Kinetic Equations". Journal of Physics USSR. 10 (3): 265–274.
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- ^ "Mk. 1". Martin-Baker. 2011-07-14. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2012-10-31.
- ^ "Nobel Laureates 1946." Archived 2010-01-09 at the Wayback Machine Nobelprize.