1943 in science

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The year 1943 in science and technology had many significant events, including those listed below.

Contents 1 Computer science 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Computer science

• May 17 - The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.

• Development of the Colossus computer by British to break German encryption

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Otto Stern
  • Chemistry - George de Hevesy
  • Medicine - Carl Peter Henrik Dam, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Gerhard Domagk

[edit] Births

• June 6 - Richard Smalley (d. 2005), Nobelaureate in Chemistry (1996) for the discovery of a new form of carbon, Buckminsterfullerene.

[edit] Deaths

• January 5 - George Washington Carver (b. 1860), American botanist.
• January 7 - Nikola Tesla (b. 1856), inventor.