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The year 1947 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Anthropology

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Astronomy and space exploration

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Biology

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Computer science

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Mathematics

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Medicine

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Metrology

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Paleontology

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Physics

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Technology

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Awards

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Births

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Deaths

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  1. ^ "Wood Raft Makes 4,300-Mile Voyage". This Day in History. BBC. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  2. ^ Orton, O. Richard (1998). Rocks From Space (2nd ed.). Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing. p. 103. ISBN 0-87842-373-7.
  3. ^ "Upper Air Rocket Summary V-2 No. 20". Retrieved 11 May 2011.
  4. ^ "The Beginnings of Research in Space Biology at the Air Force Missile Development Center, 1946-1952". History of Research in Space Biology and Biodynamics. NASA. Archived from the original on 25 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  5. ^ "V-2 Firing Tables". White Sands Missile Range. Archived from the original on 2008-01-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  6. ^ Bok, Bart J.; Reilly, Edith F. (March 1947). "Small Dark Nebulae". The Astrophysical Journal. 105: 255. Bibcode:1947ApJ...105..255B. doi:10.1086/144901.
  7. ^ "The swifts in the tower". Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on 2011-03-11. Retrieved 2011-03-17.
  8. ^ Lack, Andrew; Overall, Roy (2002). The Museum Swifts: the story of the swifts in the tower of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Oxford University Museum of Natural History. ISBN 0-9542726-0-9.
  9. ^ Asha, Kumari; Kumar, Binod (2019-02-05). "Emerging Influenza D Virus Threat: What We Know so Far!". Journal of Clinical Medicine. 8 (2): 192–. doi:10.3390/jcm8020192. PMC 6406440. PMID 30764577.
  10. ^ US 2455992, Goldsmith Jr., Thomas T. & Estle Ray, Mann, "Cathode-ray tube amusement device", published 1948-12-14, assigned to Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories Inc. 
  11. ^ "July 29, 1947". Britannica. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  12. ^ "bug:n". The Jargon File. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
  13. ^ "Log Book With Computer Bug". National Museum of American History. Archived from the original on 2014-09-27. Retrieved 2013-01-16.
  14. ^ "computer, n". Oxford English Dictionary online version. Oxford University Press. September 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-29. (subscription or participating institution membership required)
  15. ^ Crank, J.; Nicolson, P. (1947). "A practical method for numerical evaluation of solutions of partial differential equations of the heat conduction type". Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 43 (1): 50–67. doi:10.1007/BF02127704. S2CID 16676040.
  16. ^ Murty, Katta G. (1983). Linear programming. New York: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-09725-X. MR 0720547.
  17. ^ Dantzig, George B. (2003). Cottle, Richard W (ed.). The Basic George B. Dantzig. Stanford University Press.
  18. ^ Dantzig, George B.; Thapa, Mukund N. (1997). Linear programming 1: Introduction. Springer.
  19. ^ Dantzig, George B.; Thapa, Mukund N. (2003). Linear Programming 2: Theory and Extensions. Springer.
  20. ^ Todd, Michael J. (February 2002). "The many facets of linear programming". Mathematical Programming. 91 (3): 417–436. doi:10.1007/s101070100261. S2CID 6464735.
  21. ^ Computing in Science and Engineering 2(1) (2000).
  22. ^ Skugor, Mario; Wilder, Jesse Bryant (2009). The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Thyroid Disorders. New York: Kaplan Publishing. p. 71. ISBN 978-1-4277-9969-2. Retrieved 13 September 2011. propylthiouracil introduced 1947.
  23. ^ "Claude Beck, defibrillation and CPR". Case Western Reserve University. 2010. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
  24. ^ Barber, Mary (1947-11-29). "Staphylococcal Infection due to Penicillin-Resistant Strains". British Medical Journal. 2 (4534): 863–865. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.4534.863. PMC 2056216. PMID 20272443.
  25. ^ Pennington, Hugh (2010-02-09). "Rooting out the villains". Public Service.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2011-02-28. Retrieved 2012-12-06.
  26. ^ Haines, Catharine M. C. (2001). International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-57607-090-5.
  27. ^ "The Shelter Island Conference". The National Academies. Archived from the original on 1 April 2010. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  28. ^ Richet, P.; Bottinga, Y.; Javoy, M. (1977). "A Review of Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Sulphur, and Chlorine Stable Isotope Fractionation Among Gaseous Molecules". Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 5: 65–110. Bibcode:1977AREPS...5...65R. doi:10.1146/annurev.ea.05.050177.000433.
  29. ^ Urey, H.C. (1947). "The Thermodynamic Properties of Isotopic Substances". Journal of the Chemical Society: 562–581. doi:10.1039/JR9470000562. PMID 20249764.
  30. ^ Bigeleisen, J.; Mayer, M.G. (1947). "Calculation of Equilibrium Constants for Isotopic Exchange Reactions". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 15 (5): 261–267. Bibcode:1947JChPh..15..261B. doi:10.1063/1.1746492. hdl:2027/mdp.39015074123996.
  31. ^ "November 17 – December 23, 1947: Invention of the First Transistor". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2013-01-16.
  32. ^ Ring, D. H. (1947-12-11). "Mobile Telephony – Wide Area Coverage" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
  33. ^ "Nobel Laureates 1947." Nobelprize.
  34. ^ "Obituary: Professor John Brown OBE, Astronomer Royal for Scotland who used magic tricks to share wonder of the cosmos". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  35. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022". Nobel Prize (Press release). The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 2022-10-04. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  36. ^ Will Steffen, ‘courageous’ climate scientist, dies in Canberra aged 75
  37. ^ GRO Register of Deaths: December 1947 4a 204 Cambridge – Godfrey H. Hardy, aged 70.