The year 1946 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
- February 26 – Ahmed Zewail (died 2016), Egyptian-born "father of femtochemistry", recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- May 11 – Robert Jarvik, American co-inventor of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart
- June 13 – Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- June 24 – Ellison Onizuka (killed 1986), American astronaut
- July 2 – Richard Axel, American physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- August 2 – Nigel Hitchin, English mathematician
- August 5 – Shirley Ann Jackson, African American physicist
- August 11 – Marilyn vos Savant, American polymath
- September 7 – Francisco Varela (died 2001), Chilean-born biologist and philosopher
- September 8 – Aziz Sancar, Turkish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- September 9 – Adrian Smith, English statistician, President of the Royal Society
- September 28 – Morinobu Endo, Japanese chemist
- October 14 – Kay Redfield Jamison, American clinical psychologist
- October 17 – Carol Dweck, American social psychologist
- December 31 – Roy Porter (died 2002), English medical historian
- Faiza Al-Kharafi, Kuwaiti electrochemist
- March 8 – Frederick W. Lanchester (born 1868), English automotive engineer.
- March 23 – Gilbert N. Lewis (born 1875), American chemist; first to isolate deuterium.
- March 26 – Gerhard Heilman (born 1859), Danish paleo-ornithologist.
- May 2 – Simon Flexner (born 1863), American pathologist and bacteriologist.
- June 14 – John Logie Baird (born 1888), Scottish-born inventor.
- August 13 – H. G. Wells (born 1866), English novelist and scientific populariser.
- September 16 – James Jeans (born 1877), English mathematician and scientist.
- October 2 – Ignacy Mościcki (born 1867), chemist and President of Poland.
- October 4 – Barney Oldfield (born 1878), American automobile racer.
- December 2 – Hilda Lyon (born 1896), English aeronautical engineer.
- Israel Aharoni (born 1882), Russian-born Jewish zoologist.
- ^ Daly, Reginald A. (1946). "Origin of the Moon and Its Topography". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 90 (2): 104–19. JSTOR 3301051.
- ^ Österreichische Zoologische Zeitschrift 1: pp. 1–48.
- ^ Jaeger, Edmund C. (May–June 1949). "Further Observations on the Hibernation of the Poor-will". The Condor. 3. 51 (3): 105–109. doi:10.2307/1365104. ISSN 0010-5422. JSTOR 1365104. OCLC 478309773.
Earlier I gave an account (Condor, 50, 1948:45) of the behavior of a Poor-will (Phalaenoptilus nuttallinii) which I found in a state of profound torpidity in the winter of 1946–47 in the Chuckawalla Mountains of the Colorado Desert, California.
(photographs by Kenneth Middleham)
- ^ Hiltner, Nita (2011-02-20). "A Look Back". The Press-Enterprise. Riverside, California: Enterprise Media. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved 2011-11-15.
- ^ Chamberlin, Wellman (1947). The Round Earth on Flat Paper: Map Projections Used by Cartographers. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society. ASIN B000WTCPXE.
- ^ Robinson, R. (1946). "The constitution of strychnine". Experientia. 2 (1): 1946. doi:10.1007/BF02154708. PMID 21012825.
- ^ Briggs, L. H.; Openshaw, H. T.; Robinson, Robert (1946). "Strychnine and brucine. Part XLII. Constitution of the neo-series of bases and their oxidation products". Journal of the Chemical Society. London: 903. doi:10.1039/JR9460000903.
- ^ Openshaw, H. T.; Robinson, R. (1946). "Constitution of Strychnine and the Biogenetic Relationship of Strychnine and Quinine". Nature. 157 (3988): 438. Bibcode:1946Natur.157..438O. doi:10.1038/157438a0. PMID 21024272.
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- ^ Berkson, Joseph (June 1946). "Limitations of the Application of Fourfold Table Analysis to Hospital Data". Biometrics Bulletin. 2 (3): 47–53. doi:10.2307/3002000. JSTOR 3002000. PMID 21001024.
- ^ Meisol, Patricia (17 March 1998). "Echoes from the baby boom appreciation: for 50 years, parents turned to the book by Dr. Benjamin Spock for the most common-sense advice about raising children". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on 2010-05-16. Retrieved 2010-03-31.
- ^ Roach, Mary (2007-03-18). "Girls Will Be Boys". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012. Retrieved 2007-03-25.
- ^ Gilman, Alfred; Philips, Frederick S. (5 April 1946). "The Biological Actions and Therapeutic Applications of the Β-Chloroethyl Amines and Sulfides". Science. 103 (2675): 409–15, 436. Bibcode:1946Sci...103..409G. doi:10.1126/science.103.2675.409. JSTOR 1673195. PMID 17751251.
- ^ Gilman, Alfred (1963). "The Initial Clinical Trial of Nitrogen Mustard". American Journal of Surgery. 105 (5): 574–578. doi:10.1016/0002-9610(63)90232-0. PMID 13947966.
- ^ Bogoliubov, N. N. (1946). "Kinetic Equations". Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics. 16 (8): 691–702.
- ^ Bogoliubov, N. N. (1946). "Kinetic Equations". Journal of Physics USSR. 10 (3): 265–274.
- ^ Kirkwood, John G. (March 1946). "The Statistical Mechanical Theory of Transport Processes I. General Theory". Journal of Chemical Physics. 14 (3): 180. Bibcode:1946JChPh..14..180K. doi:10.1063/1.1724117.
- ^ Born, M.; Green, H. S. (31 December 1946). "A General Kinetic Theory of Liquids I. The Molecular Distribution Functions". Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 188: 10–18. Bibcode:1946RSPSA.188...10B. doi:10.1098/rspa.1946.0093.
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