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The year 1944 in science and technology included many events:
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Astronomy
- Hendrik van de Hulst predicts the 21 cm hyperfine line of neutral interstellar hydrogen.
Biology
- Oswald Avery published Studies on the chemical nature of the substance inducing transformation of Pneumococcal types (Avery, O.T., MacLeod, C.M. & McCarty, M. Journal of Experimental Mededicine February 1 issue.) The McCarty laboratory showed that a DNA molecule could carry an inheritable trait to a living organism. This was important because many biologists thought that genes were proteins and that nucleic acids were too simple chemically to serve as genetic storage molecules.
Chemistry
- Americium discovered by Glenn T. Seaborg, et al.
- Lars Onsager publishes (http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v65/i3-4/p117_1) 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
Births
- August 24 - Gregory Jarvis (d. 1986), astronaut.
Deaths
- November 2 - Thomas Midgley (b. 1889), American chemist and inventor.
- November 22 - Arthur Eddington (b. 1882), astrophysicist.