1951 in science

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The year 1951 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Computer science 2 Technology 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Computer science

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

[edit] Technology

• July 5 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor.

[edit] 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

[edit] Births

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

[edit] Deaths

• April 6 - Robert Broom (b. 1866), paleontologist
• April 22 - Horace Donisthorpe (b. 1870), British entomologistfr:1951 en science

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