1944 in science

The year 1944 in science and technology included many events:

See also: 1843 in science, other events of 1944, 1943 in science, 1945 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Astronomy 2 Chemistry 3 Computer science 4 Medicine 5 Technology 6 Awards 7 Births 8 Deaths

Astronomy

• Hendrik van de Hulst predicts the 21 cm hyperfine line of neutral interstellar hydrogen.

Chemistry

• Americium discovered by Glenn T. Seaborg, et al.
• Lars Onsager publishes the exact solution to the two-dimensional Ising model

Computer science

• August 7 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, best known as the Harvard Mark I.

Medicine

• The antibiotic streptomycin is developed.

Technology

• December 9 - First flight of the Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger, the second jet engined fighter aircraft to be fielded by the Luftwaffe in WWII.
• Erik Wallenberg and Ruben Rausing invent a way to package milk in paper and start the company Tetra Pak.
• First operational use of a snorkel on a submarine.
• First operational use of the V-2 rocket, the first ballistic missile.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Isidor Isaac Rabi
  • Chemistry - Otto Hahn
  • Medicine - Joseph Erlanger, Herbert Spencer Gasser

Births

Deaths

• November 2 - Thomas Midgley American chemist and inventor
• Arthur Eddington, astrophysicist