1944 In Science

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1943 In Science

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1945 In Science

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The year 1944 in Science and Technology included many events:

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 Gene s were Protein s and that Nucleic Acids were too simple chemically to serve as genetic storage molecules.

CHEMISTRY

COMPUTER SCIENCE

August 7 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled Calculator , the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, best known as the Harvard Mark I .

MEDICINE

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 .

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