Science on the year of 1943 in history

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Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1942 University of Oxford	science	University of Oxford (biology) The University of Oxford acquires the nearby Wytham Woods which become an important centre for research into ecology in England.
30 Nov 1942 Abraham Maslow	science	Abraham Maslow (psychology) Abraham Maslow proposes the Hierarchy of Needs theory of psychology in his paper "A Theory of Human Motivation".
30 Nov 1942 Leo Kanner	science	Leo Kanner (physiology and medic) Leo Kanner of the Johns Hopkins Hospital first adopts the term autism in its modern sense in English in referring to early infantile autism.
30 Nov 1942 Warren S. McCulloch	science	Warren S. McCulloch (physiology and medic) Warren S. McCulloch and Walter Pitts publish "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" in Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, considered seminal in neural network theory.
30 Nov 1942 Willem J. Kolff	science	Willem J. Kolff (physiology and medic) Dr. Willem J. Kolff builds the first dialysis machine, in the occupied Netherlands.
30 Nov 1942 New Zealand	science	New Zealand (physiology and medic) New Zealand-born British anaesthetist Robert Reynolds Macintosh introduces his new curved laryngoscope blade for tracheal intubation.
30 Nov 1942 patent	science	patent (technology) Lyle Goodhue and William Sullivan patent the refillable aerosol spray in the United States, for use with mosquito-repellant.
30 Nov 1942 Abraham Buschke	science	death Abraham Buschke Abraham Buschke (born 1868), German Jewish dermatologist (in Theresienstadt concentration camp).
05 Jan 1943 George Washington Carver	science	death George Washington Carver George Washington Carver (born c.1864), African American agricultural botanist.
07 Jan 1943 Nikola Tesla	science	death Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla (born 1856), Croatian-born Serbian American inventor.
14 Jan 1943 Ralph Steinman	science	birth Ralph Steinman Ralph Steinman (died 2011), Canadian-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2011).
24 Jan 1943 Carl Brigham	science	death Carl Brigham Carl Brigham (born 1890), American pioneer of psychometrics.
26 Jan 1943 Nikolai Vavilov	science	death Nikolai Vavilov Nikolai Vavilov (born 1887), Russian plant pathologist (in prison).
05 Feb 1943 Charles Joseph Chamberlain	science	death Charles Joseph Chamberlain Died 5 Feb 1943 at age 79 (born 23 Feb 1863). U.S. botanist whose major area of research was the cycad genera, palmlike, cone-bearing plants intermediate in appearance and structural features between tree ferns and palms. Before his work, little was known concerning the life histories, distribution, ecology, and diversity of cycads and other primitive seed plants. Making visits to Mexico, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa and Cuba (1904-22), Chamberlain collected specimens and gained information on critical stages in such plant development. Studying the primitive gymnosperms of the cycad family enabled him to postulate a course of evolutionary development for the spermatophyte (seed plant) ovule and embryo and led to speculation about a cycad origin for angiosperms (flowering plants).
14 Feb 1943 David Hilbert	science	death David Hilbert David Hilbert (born 1862), German mathematician.
20 Feb 1943 cinder cone	science	cinder cone (earth sciences) The cinder cone volcano Parícutin begins to appear in Mexico, giving volcanologists an unusual opportunity to observe its complete life cycle.
01 Mar 1943 Colossus computer	science	Colossus computer (computer science) December – Construction of British prototype Mark I Colossus computer, the world's first totally electronic programmable computing device, at the Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill, to assist in cryptanalysis at Bletchley Park.
05 Mar 1943 Gloster Meteor	science	Gloster Meteor (technology) The Gloster Meteor, the first operational military jet aircraft for the Allies of World War II, has its first test flight, in England.
23 Mar 1943 Vicodin	science	Vicodin (pharmacology) The drugs Vicodin and Lortab are made in Germany.
28 Mar 1943 Robert W. Paul	science	death Robert W. Paul Robert W. Paul (born 1869), English pioneer of cinematography.
08 Apr 1943 Kiyotsugu Hirayama	science	death Kiyotsugu Hirayama Kiyotsugu Hirayama (born 1874), Japanese astronomer.
09 May 1943 Colin Pillinger	science	birth Colin Pillinger Colin Pillinger (died 2014), English astrophysicist.
16 May 1943 Operation Chastise	science	Operation Chastise (technology) Operation Chastise: British Royal Air Force attacks German dams using 'bouncing bombs' designed by Barnes Wallis.
17 May 1943 United States Army	science	United States Army (computer science) The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
06 Jun 1943 Richard Smalley	science	birth Richard Smalley Richard Smalley (died 2005), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996) for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene.
10 Jun 1943 Ball point pen	science	Ball point pen In 1943, Laszlo Biro filed for a British patent (No. 564172) on a practical ball point pen with quick-drying ink. Biro was a journalist, in 1938, in Budapest (also sculptor and hypnotist) when he took out a Hungarian patent for his first design of the pen. In 1940, he escaped the Nazis by going via Paris to Buenos Aires, Argentina. There a British entrpreneur, Henry Martin, saw Biro’s pen and realized its value for air crews making high altitude navigational calculations. It could write blot-free, unaffected by low or changing atmospheric pressure. Martin bought the rights and began small scale production of ballpoint pens for the RAF. In 1945, the Eterpen Co in Buenos Aires began commercial production.
26 Jun 1943 Karl Landsteiner	science	death Karl Landsteiner Karl Landsteiner (born 1868), Austrian-born American Jewish physiologist.
15 Jul 1943 Jocelyn Bell Burnell	science	birth Jocelyn Bell Burnell Born 15 Jul 1943. British astronomer who discovered the first four pulsars. She was a Cambridge University graduate student, age 24, searching for quasars in 1967, when she noticed an unusual stellar radio signal - a rapid series of pulses repeating every 1.337 sec. This interstellar beacon was not man-made, so it was nicknamed in fun as LGM, for Little Green Men. In the next few months, Bell (her maiden name) found three more sources of radio pulses by careful scrutiny of hundreds of feet of pen-recorder paper. These represented a new class of celestial objects - pulsars - which astronomers eventually associated with superdense matter in the final stage of the evolution of massive stars. To date, hundreds more pulsars have been identified.
21 Jul 1943 Mesozoic	science	Mesozoic (biology) Living specimens of Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the Dawn Redwood, previously known only as a Mesozoic fossil, are located in China.
23 Sep 1943 John Bradfield	science	death John Bradfield John Bradfield (born 1867), Australian civil engineer.
01 Oct 1943 Albert Stewart Meek	science	death Albert Stewart Meek Albert Stewart Meek (born 1871), English-born Australian ornithologist.
19 Oct 1943 antibiotic	science	antibiotic (pharmacology) The antibiotic streptomycin (the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis) is first isolated by Albert Schatz in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University in the United States.
14 Nov 1943 Frank Leverett	science	death Frank Leverett Frank Leverett (born 1859), American glaciologist.
20 Nov 1943 Bertha Lamme Feicht	science	death Bertha Lamme Feicht Bertha Lamme Feicht (born 1869), American electrical engineer.
07 Dec 1943 Nick Katz	science	birth Nick Katz Nick Katz, American mathematician.

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