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The year 1946 in Science and Technology had many significant events, including those listed below.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

ENIAC , the first non-classified all-electronic computer, becomes operational

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Percy Williams Bridgman

--- Chemistry - James B. Sumner , John Howard Northrop , Wendell Meredith Stanley

--- Medicine - Hermann Joseph Muller

BIRTHS

May 11 - Robert Jarvik , co-inventor of the Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart .

June 24 - Ellison Onizuka (d. 1986 ), Astronaut .

July 2 - Richard Axel , physiologist, Nobel prize winner

September 7 - Francisco Varela (d. 2001 ), Biologist and Philosopher .

October 14 - Kay Redfield Jamison

DEATHS

March 23 - Gilbert N. Lewis (b. 1875 ), Chemist . First to isolate Deuterium .

May 2 - Simon Flexner (b. 1863 ), Pathologist and Bacteriologist .

June 14 - John Logie Baird (b. 1888 ), Inventor .

September 16 - James Hopwood Jeans (b. 1877 ), Mathematician and Scientist .