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The year 1943 in Science and Technology had many significant events, including those listed below.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

May 17 - The United States Army contracts with the University Of Pennsylvania 's Moore School to develop the ENIAC .

Development of the Colossus Computer by British to break German encryption

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Otto Stern

--- Chemistry - George De Hevesy

--- Medicine - Carl Peter Henrik Dam , Edward Adelbert Doisy , Gerhard Domagk

BIRTHS

June 6 - Richard Smalley (d. 2005 ), Nobelaureate in Chemistry ( 1996 ) for the discovery of a new form of carbon, Buckminsterfullerene .

DEATHS

January 5 - George Washington Carver (b. 1860 ), American Botanist .

January 7 - Nikola Tesla (b. 1856 ), Inventor .