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1951 in science

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

See also: 1950 in science, other events of 1951, 1952 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Computer science 2 Technology 3 Awards 3.1 Deaths

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

Deaths

• April 6 - Robert Broom, paleontologist (* 1866)
• April 22 - Horace Donisthorpe, entomologist, myrmecologist, coleopterist (* 1870)

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