1949 in science
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The year 1949 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Computer science
- June - EDSAC, the first stored-program computer, begins operation at Cambridge University.
[edit] Chemistry
- Radiocarbon dating technique discovered by Willard Libby and his colleagues at the University of Chicago — work for which Libby received the Nobel prize in 1960.
[edit] Meteorology
- January 11 - Los Angeles, California receives its first recorded snowfall.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- February 19 - Danielle Bunten Berry (d. 1998), also known as Dan Bunten, software developer.
- April 5 - Judith Resnik (d. 1986), astronaut.
- May 24 - Tomaž Pisanski, mathematician
