1951 in science

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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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