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The year 1947 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Anthropology
- August 7 - Thor Heyerdahl's balsa-wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 4300-mile (6900-km) journey across the Pacific Ocean, proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
Computer science
- July 29 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a refurbishment, ENIAC, one of the world's first digital computers, is turned on after a memory upgrade. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
Physics
- June 2 - The Shelter Island Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics convenes in New York.
Awards
- Nobel Prizes
- Physics - Edward Victor Appleton
- Chemistry - Sir Robert Robinson
- Medicine - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay
Births
- January 29 - Linda B. Buck, biologist, Nobel prize winner, 2004
Deaths
- February 25 - Friedrich Paschen (b. 1865), physicist.
- October 4 - Max Planck (b. 1858), theoretical physicist.
- December 17 - J. N. Brønsted (b. 1879), physical chemist.
- Godfrey Harold Hardy (b. 1877), mathematician.
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