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1946
28 January 1946, Death of Jan Jr. Woltjer in Leiden, The Netherlands
26 February 1946 Birth of Ahmed Hassan Zewail
23 March 1946 Death of Gilbert Newton Lewis
14 June 1946 Death of Federigo Enriques
5 August 1946 Death of Werner Heinrich Julius Gustav Kolhörster in Munich, Germany
1946 Death of Sir James Jeans
1946 Death of Alfred Stock
1946 Death of Sir James Hopwood Jeans
Nobel Prize
Physics to Percy Williams Bridgman for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics.
Chemistry to James Batcheller Sumner "for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized" and to John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley "for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form"
Physiology or Medicine to Hermann Joseph Muller "for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation"
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