 the year 1944 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. ==astronomy== * hendrik van de hulst predicts the 21&nbsp;cm hyperfine line of neutral interstellar hydrogen. ==biology== * february 1 â oswald t. avery and colleagues publish the averyâmacleodâmccarty experiment (received for publication 1 november 1943.) showing that a dna molecule can carry an inheritable trait to a living organism. this is important because many biologists thought that proteins were the hereditary material and nucleic acids too simple chemically to serve as genetic storage molecules. * erwin schrÃ¶dinger publishes what is life?, containing conceptual discussion of the genetic code and of negentropy. * last known evidence for existence of the asiatic lion in the wild in iran (khuzestan province). ==chemistry== * february â lars onsager publishes the exact solution to the two-dimensional ising model. * americium discovered by glenn t. seaborg, et al. ==computer science== * august 7 â ibm dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the automatic sequence controlled calculator, best known as the harvard mark i. ==geology== * march 18 â last eruption of mount vesuvius. ==history of science== * the whipple museum of the history of science is established when robert whipple presents his collection of scientific instruments to the university of cambridge, england. ==mathematics== * john von neumann and oskar morgenstern's book theory of games and economic behavior is published by princeton university press. ==medicine== * november 19 â [[minnesota starvation e
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