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Overview of the events of 1949 in science
The year 1949 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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January 25 – Paul Nurse , English cell biologist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
February 1 – Alice Alldredge , Australian -born oceanographer .
February 17 – Peter Piot , Belgian microbiologist and epidemiologist .
February 19 – Danielle Bunten Berry , born Dan(iel Paul) Bunten (died 1998 ), American software developer.
February 22 – Tullio Pozzan (died 2022 ), Italian biochemist .
March 28 – Michael W. Young , American geneticist and chronobiologist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
April 5 – Judith Resnik (died 1986 ), American astronaut .
April 18 – Yasumasa Kanada , Japanese mathematician .
May 24 – Tomaž Pisanski , Slovenian mathematician.
May 26 – Ward Cunningham , American computer programmer .
June 2 – Heather Couper (died 2020 ), English astronomer .
July 23 – Andrew Odlyzko , Polish-born American mathematician.
August 31 – H. David Politzer , American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics .
November 24 – Sally Davies , English Chief Medical Officer .
Michael Houghton , British-born virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
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^ Glusker, Jenny P. (1994). "Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994)" . Protein Science . 3 (12): 2465–2469. doi :10.1002/pro.5560031233 . PMC 2142778 . PMID 7757003 .
^ "Pioneer computer to be rebuilt". Cam . 62 : 5. 2011.
^ "Today in Earthquake History: August 5" . United States Geological Survey . 2009-12-18. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-19 .
^ Cade, J. F. J. (1949). "Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement" (PDF) . Medical Journal of Australia . 2 (10): 349–52. doi :10.1080/j.1440-1614.1999.06241.x . PMC 2560740 . PMID 18142718 . Retrieved 6 June 2011 .
^ Dyson, F. J. (1949). "The radiation theories of Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman" . Physical Review . 75 (3): 486–502. Bibcode :1949PhRv...75..486D . doi :10.1103/PhysRev.75.486 .
^ Dyson, F. J. (1949). "The S matrix in quantum electrodynamics". Physical Review . 75 (11): 1736–1755. Bibcode :1949PhRv...75.1736D . doi :10.1103/PhysRev.75.1736 .
^ Lanczos, Cornelius (1949). "Lagrangian Multiplier and Riemannian Spaces" (PDF) . Reviews of Modern Physics . 21 (3): 497–502. Bibcode :1949RvMP...21..497L . doi :10.1103/RevModPhys.21.497 .
^ Pauli, W. ; Villars, F. (1949). "On the Invariant Regularization in Relativistic Quantum Theory" . Reviews of Modern Physics . 21 (3): 434–444. Bibcode :1949RvMP...21..434P . doi :10.1103/RevModPhys.21.434 .
^ Haldane, J. B. S. (1949). "Suggestions as to quantitative measurement of rates of evolution" . Evolution . 3 (1): 51–56. doi :10.1111/j.1558-5646.1949.tb00004.x . JSTOR 2405451 .