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Overview of the events of 1947 in science
The year 1947 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Anthropology
August 7 – Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 4300-mile (6900-km) journey across the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating that prehistoric peoples could have traveled from South America.
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Astronomy and space exploration
Biology
Computer science
January 25 – first video game
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July 29 – After being shut off on November 9, 1946, for a refurbishment and relocation, ENIAC , one of the world's first digital computers , is turned on after a memory upgrade at Aberdeen Proving Ground , Maryland. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.[11]
August 18 – Official start of construction of Automatic Computing Engine in the United Kingdom.
September 9 – A moth lodged in a relay is found to be the cause of a malfunction in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer, logged as "First actual case of bug being found."[12] [13]
October – First recorded use of the word computer in its modern sense, referring to an electronic digital machine.[14]
Mathematics
Medicine
Metrology
Paleontology
April 18 – "John T. Robinson
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Physics
Technology
Awards
Births
January 24 – .
January 29 – Linda B. Buck , American biologist , recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , 2004.
February 4 – John Campbell Brown (died 2019 ), Scottish astronomer .[34]
March 16 – Keith Devlin , English-born mathematician and popularizer of science.
April 18 – Chris Rapley , British climate scientist.
May 9 – , 2013.
June 8 – Eric F. Wieschaus , American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , 1995.
June 15 – Alain Aspect , French quantum physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics [35]
June 25 – Will Steffen , American-born Australian chemist (died 2023 )[36]
July 5 – cytogeneticist
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July 30 – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi , French virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , 2008.
August 21 – Margaret Chan , Hong Kong-born physician.
December 6 – .
December 16 – Martyn Poliakoff , British chemist and popularizer of science.
Stuart W. Jamieson , Rhodesian -born cardiothoracic surgeon.
Deaths
February 12 – Moses Gomberg (born 1866 ), American chemist.
February 25 – Friedrich Paschen (born 1865 ), German physicist .
August 23 – aircraft designer
(aircraft accident).
September 15 – .
October 2 – P. D. Ouspensky (born 1878 ), Russian-born philosopher.
October 4 – quantum physicist
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November 17 – .
December 1
December 17 – physical chemist
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References
^ "Wood Raft Makes 4,300-Mile Voyage" . This Day in History . BBC . Retrieved 4 July 2010 .
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^ "Upper Air Rocket Summary V-2 No. 20" . Retrieved 11 May 2011 .
^ "The Beginnings of Research in Space Biology at the Air Force Missile Development Center, 1946-1952" . History of Research in Space Biology and Biodynamics . NASA . Archived from the original on 25 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-31 .
^ "V-2 Firing Tables" . White Sands Missile Range . Archived from the original on 2008-01-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31 .
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^ "The swifts in the tower" . Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on 2011-03-11. Retrieved 2011-03-17 .
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^ US 2455992 , Goldsmith Jr., Thomas T. & Estle Ray, Mann, "Cathode-ray tube amusement device", published 1948-12-14, assigned to Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories Inc.
^ "July 29, 1947" . Britannica . Retrieved 4 July 2010 .
^ "bug :n" . The Jargon File . Retrieved 2012-01-20 .
^ "Log Book With Computer Bug" . National Museum of American History . Archived from the original on 2014-09-27. Retrieved 2013-01-16 .
^ "computer, n " . Oxford English Dictionary online version . Oxford University Press. September 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-29 . (subscription or participating institution membership required)
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^ Dantzig, George B. (2003). Cottle, Richard W (ed.). The Basic George B. Dantzig . Stanford University Press.
^ Dantzig, George B.; Thapa, Mukund N. (1997). Linear programming 1: Introduction . Springer.
^ Dantzig, George B.; Thapa, Mukund N. (2003). Linear Programming 2: Theory and Extensions . Springer.
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^ Computing in Science and Engineering 2 (1) (2000).
. Retrieved 13 September 2011 . propylthiouracil introduced 1947.
^ "Claude Beck, defibrillation and CPR" . Case Western Reserve University. 2010. Retrieved 2012-06-13 .
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^ Pennington, Hugh (2010-02-09). "Rooting out the villains" . Public Service.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2011-02-28. Retrieved 2012-12-06 .
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^ "The Shelter Island Conference" . The National Academies. Archived from the original on 1 April 2010. Retrieved 4 July 2010 .
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^ "November 17 – December 23, 1947: Invention of the First Transistor" . American Physical Society . Retrieved 2013-01-16 .
^ Ring, D. H. (1947-12-11). "Mobile Telephony – Wide Area Coverage" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2018-07-10 .
^ "Nobel Laureates 1947." Nobelprize .
^ "Obituary: Professor John Brown OBE, Astronomer Royal for Scotland who used magic tricks to share wonder of the cosmos" . www.scotsman.com . Retrieved 27 May 2021 .
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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^ Will Steffen, ‘courageous’ climate scientist, dies in Canberra aged 75
^ GRO Register of Deaths: December 1947 4a 204 Cambridge – Godfrey H. Hardy, aged 70.