1951 in science

Summary

The year 1951 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

List of years in science (table)

Biology edit

  • Nesting pairs of the Bermuda petrel, thought to have been extinct for more than 300 years, are found.
  • Niko Tinbergen publishes The Study of Instinct.

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References edit

  1. ^ Lowry, Oliver H.; Rosebrough, Nira J.; Farr, A. Lewis; Randall, Rose J. (1951-11-01). "Protein Measurement with the Folin Phenol Reagent" (PDF). Journal of Biological Chemistry. 193 (1): 265–75. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(19)52451-6. PMID 14907713. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
  2. ^ Lavington, Simon Hugh; Society, British Computer (1998). A History of Manchester Computers. British Computer Society. ISBN 978-1-902505-01-5.
  3. ^ "50th anniversary of the UNIVAC I". CNN. 2001-06-14. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
  4. ^ "Welcome to Nimrod!". Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
  5. ^ Wilkes, Maurice (1951). "The Best Way to Design an Automatic Computing Machine". Report of Manchester University Computer Inaugural Conference. pp. 16–18.
  6. ^ Wilkes, M. V.; Wheeler, D. J.; Gill, S. (1951). The preparation of programs for an electronic digital computer, with special reference to the EDSAC and the use of a library of subroutines. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Press.
  7. ^ Wilkes, M. V. (1969). "The Growth of Interest in Microprogramming: A Literature Survey". ACM Computing Surveys. 1 (3): 139–145. doi:10.1145/356551.356553. S2CID 10673679..
  8. ^ Ferry, Georgina (2004). "4". A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the World's First Office Computer. London: Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-1-84115-186-1.
  9. ^ Wilkes, M. V. (1956). Automatic Digital Computers. New York: Wiley.
  10. ^ Rix, Michael (July 1951). "Birmingham". History Today. 1 (7): 59.
  11. ^ University of California Press.
  12. ^ Simpson, Edward H. (1951). "The Interpretation of Interaction in Contingency Tables". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 13: 238–241.
  13. ^ Blyth, Colin R. (1972). "On Simpson's Paradox and the Sure-Thing Principle". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 67 (338): 364–366. doi:10.2307/2284382. JSTOR 2284382.
  14. ^ Asher, Richard (10 February 1951). "Munchausen's Syndrome". The Lancet. 1 (6650): 339–341. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(51)92313-6. PMID 14805062.
  15. ^ Bretherton, I. (1992). "The Origins of Attachment Theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth". Developmental Psychology. 28 (5): 759–775. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.28.5.759.
  16. ^ Writing as "Russel Saunders" in a fictional story "Are the Clipper Ships gone forever?" in Astounding Science-Fiction. Love, Allan W. (June 1985). "In Memory of Carl A. Wiley". Antennas and Propagation Society Newsletter. 27 (3): 17–18. doi:10.1109/MAP.1985.27810.
  17. ^ Wiley, C. A. (May 1985). "Synthetic Aperture Radars: A Paradigm for Technology Evolution". IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. AES-21 (3): 440–443. Bibcode:1985ITAES..21..440W. doi:10.1109/taes.1985.310578. S2CID 6691398.
  18. ^ "1951 – First Grown-Junction Transistors Fabricated". Computer History Museum. 2007. Archived from the original on 2012-09-29. Retrieved 2013-07-04.
  19. ^ Howard, Jake (2018). "Saying Goodbye To The First Surfer To Turn A Board". stabmag.com. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  20. ^ Marcus, Ben (2013-11-15). 365 Surfboards: The Coolest, Raddest, Most Innovative Boards from Around the World. Voyageur Press. p. 93. ISBN 9781610588553. Retrieved 2019-12-30.