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1951 in science

  

1951 in science

The year 1951 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Computer science

  • March 30 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.

    Technology

  • July 5 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor.

    Awards

  • Nobel Prizes
  • * Physics - John Douglas Cockcroft, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
  • * Chemistry - Edwin Mattison McMillan; Glenn Theodore Seaborg
  • * Medicine - Max Theiler
  • Copley Medal: David Keilin
  • Wollaston Medal for Geology - Olaf Holtedahl

    Births

  • September 18 - John Clark (d. 2004), cloner, head of the Roslin Institute

    Deaths

  • April 6 - Robert Broom (b. 1866), paleontologist
  • April 22 - Horace Donisthorpe (b. 1870), British entomologist


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