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1951 in science
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The year 1951 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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.
May 28 – Oliver H. Lowry submits his Lowry protein assay procedure for publication.
October 15 – The progestin norethisterone, significant in creation of the combined oral contraceptive pill, is synthesized by Carl Djerassi, Luis E. Miramontes and George Rosenkranz at Syntex in Mexico City.
February – Ferranti deliver their first Mark 1 computer to the University of Manchester (UK). It is the world's first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer.
March 30 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. It is inaugurated on June 14.
May 5 – The Ferranti NIMROD computer is presented at the Science Museum (London) during the Festival of Britain. It is designed exclusively to play Nim, using panels of lights, the first instance of a digital computer designed specifically to play a game.
July – Maurice Wilkes introduces the concept of microprogramming.
November 29 – LEO becomes the first computer to run a full commercial business application, for the British bakers J. Lyons and Co.
EDVAC binary electronic stored program computer incorporating high speed delay-line memory begins operation at the United States Army's Ballistics Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
Publication of Sancti Thomae Aquinatis hymnorum ritualium varia specimina concordantiarum ... A first example of word index automatically compiled and printed by IBM punched card machines, a concordance to work by Thomas Aquinas produced by IBM under the direction of Roberto Busa, an early instance of the use of data processing machinery in humanities research.
July – The term "Industrial archaeology" is first used in print in Britain.
Karl Huber's biography of Leibniz is published posthumously.
Hans Reichenbach's book The Rise of Scientific Philosophy is published.
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