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1945 in science

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The year 1945 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Trinity nuclear test

Biology

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Chemistry

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Computer science

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History of science and technology

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Mathematics

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Medicine

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Meteorology

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  • High-altitude west-to-east winds across Pacific, discovered by Japanese in 1942 and by Americans in 1944, are dubbed "jet stream".

Physics

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Technology

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Institutions

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Publications

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  • Argentine physicist Ernesto Sabato publishes Uno y el Universo ("One and the Universe"), a collection of essays criticizing the apparent moral neutrality of science and warning of dehumanization in technological societies.
  • First book in the New Naturalist series is published in the United Kingdom, E. B. Ford's Butterflies.

Awards

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Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ "Discovery of Promethium". Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review. 36 (1). 2003. Archived from the original on 2011-06-22. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
  2. ^ Carlisle, C. H.; Crowfoot, D. (1945). "The crystal structure of cholesteryl iodide". Proceedings of the Royal Society. A184 (996): 64–83. JSTOR 97644.
  3. ^ Glusker, Jenny P. (1994). "Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910–1994)". Protein Science. 3 (12): 2465–2469. doi:10.1002/pro.5560031233. PMC 2142778. PMID 7757003.
  4. ^ Angier, R. B.; Boothe, J. H.; Hutchings, B. L.; Mowat, J. H.; Semb, J.; Stokstad, E. L. R.; Subbarow, Y.; Waller, C. W.; Cosulich, D. B.; Fahrenbach, M. J.; Hultquist, M. E.; Kuh, E.; Northey, E. H.; Seeger, D. R.; Sickels, J. P.; Smith Jr, J. M. (1945). "Synthesis of a Compound Identical with the L. Casei Factor Isolated from Liver". Science. 102 (2644): 227–228. Bibcode:1945Sci...102..227A. doi:10.1126/science.102.2644.227. PMID 17778509.
  5. ^ Hoffbrand, A. V.; Weir, D. G. (2001). "The history of folic acid". British Journal of Haematology. 113 (3): 579–589. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2141.2001.02822.x. PMID 11380441.
  6. ^ Stigler, George J. (May 1945). "The Cost of Subsistence". Journal of Farm Economics. 27 (2): 303–314. doi:10.2307/1231810. JSTOR 1231810.
  7. ^ "Penicillin Pills May Replace Injection". The Milwaukee Sentinel. 1945-02-16. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
  8. ^ Year by Year – 1945. History International.
  9. ^ Clarke, Arthur C. (October 1945). "Extra-Terrestrial Relays: Can Rocket Stations Give World-wide Radio Coverage?". Wireless World: 305–6. Archived from the original on 2006-11-07. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
  10. ^ "Peacetime Uses for V2" (JPG). Wireless World. February 1945. Archived from the original on 2007-03-15. Retrieved 2007-02-08.
  11. ^ "Installed Desalination Capacity by Year, Number of Plants, and Total Capacity, 1945 to 2004" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-26. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
  12. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022". Nobel Prize (Press release). The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 2022-10-04. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  13. ^ Ganea, Constanþa (2009). "Ruxandra Sireteanu-Constantinescu (1945-2008)". Curierul de Fizica (in Romanian). 63 (1): 18.