 the year 1946 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. ==astronomy== * january 10 â the united states army signal corps' project diana bounces radar waves off the moon. * reginald aldworth daly of harvard university first proposes a giant impact hypothesis to account for formation of the moon. ==biology== * november 10 â peter scott opens the slimbridge wetland reserve in england. * karl von frisch publishes "die tÃ¤nze der bienen" ("the dances of the bees").Ãsterreichische zoologische zeitschrift 1: pp. 1â48. * edmund jaeger discovers and later documents, in the condor, (photographs by kenneth middleham) a state of extended torpor, approaching hibernation, in a bird, the common poorwill. ==computer science== * february 14&ndash;15 â eniac, the first non-classified all-electronic turing complete computer, built under the direction of j. presper eckert and john mauchly, is announced and dedicated at the university of pennsylvania's moore school of electrical engineering."1946." britannica. it is programmable by plugboard and uses conditional branching. * december 11 â frederick williams receives a patent for a random-access memory device. ==medicine== * july 14 â dr. benjamin spock's [[the common 
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