1951 in science
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The year 1951 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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Computer science
- March 30 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
Technology
- July 5 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
Awards
- Nobel Prizes
- Copley Medal: David Keilin
- Wollaston Medal for Geology - Olaf Holtedahl
Births
- September 18 - John Clark (d. 2004), cloner, head of the Roslin Institute
Deaths
- April 6 - Robert Broom (b. 1866), paleontologist
- April 22 - Horace Donisthorpe (b. 1870), British entomologist