1946 in science
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The year 1946 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Computer science
- ENIAC, the first non-classified all-electronic computer, becomes operational
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- May 11 - Robert Jarvik, co-inventor of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart.
- June 22 - Kay Redfield Jamison
- June 24 - Ellison Onizuka (d. 1986), astronaut.
- July 2 - Richard Axel, physiologist, Nobel prize winner
- September 7 - Francisco Varela (d. 2001), biologist and philosopher
[edit] Deaths
- March 23 - Gilbert N. Lewis (b. 1875), chemist. First to isolate deuterium.
- May 2 - Simon Flexner (b. 1863), pathologist and bacteriologist.
- June 14 - John Logie Baird (b. 1888), inventor.
- September 16 - James Hopwood Jeans (b. 1877), mathematician and scientist.
