1947 in science

Discovered Dead Sea Scroll.
the operation Highjump (4000 men, 13 ships and 23 planes) is organized by Navy American in the Antarctic. It makes it possible to chart broad parts of the continent starting from 70 000 air photographs.

January 10th: The virus of the Poliomyélite is isolated by researchers from the Université Stanford.
February 27th: First transmission of an surgical operation in closed circuit at the hospital Johns Hopkins of Baltimore.

January 4th: The physicist Robert Oppenheimer becomes president of the general advisory committee of the atomic energy of the White House.
August 15th: Startup with Harwell of the first Atomic pile British.
September: The American chemist Willard Frank Libby introduces the Carbon dating.
December 23rd: A research team of the Laboratories Beautiful presents a new invention: The Transistor which will open the way with the miniaturization of the electronic devices, will be worth a Nobel Prize with its inventors.
the British physicist Gabor invents the Hologramme.

January 20th: Dissolution of NDRC
February 21st: American E. Land presents the first Polaroïd. The apparatus takes, develops and prints the photographs on photographic paper. Photography with instantaneous development (process Polaroid) is marketed.
First chain of “transfer machines” in a factory “Renault”.
With Ottawa, developed of the meter of Goulden and Mason, always in service, allowing to count the seeds.
December: End of OSRD

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: Edward Appleton for its research on the Ionosphere.
Chemistry: Sir Robert Robinson (British) for his research on the Alkaloid S.
Physiology or medicine: Carl Ferdinand Cori (American), Gerty Theresa Cori born Radnitz (American), Bernardo Alberto Houssay (Argentinian)

April 7th: Henry Ford, industrialist.
May 16th: Frederick Hopkins, biochemist, Nobel Prize of medicine 1929.
August 21st, Paris: Ettore Bugatti, manufacturer of car.
October 4th: max Planck, inventive physicist of the Quantum theory, Nobel Prize in 1918.
February 1st: Louis Delage, car manufacturer (see Delage).
December 30th: Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician, logician and American philosopher of British origin, author with Bertrand Russell of the Principia Mathematica .

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