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4 April 1949 discovery of 2641 Lipschutz
25 April 1949 discovery of 1922 Zulu
21 June 1949 discovery of 1886 Lowell
2 August 1949 discovery of 3020 Naudts
28 August 1949 discovery of 2651 Karen
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30 January 1949 Birth of Peter Agre
6 April 1949 Birth of Horst Ludwig Störmer
31 August 1949 Birth of Hugh David Politzer
25 October 1949 Death of Mary Ackworth Orr Evershed in Ewhurst, Surrey, England,
10 November 1949 Death of William Jackson Humphreys in Washington, USA
1949 Death of Frederick Stanley Kipping
1949 Death of William Thomson Hay
1949 Death of William W. Hansen
Nobel Prize
Physics to Hideki Yukawa "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces"Arrow link
Chemistry to William Francis Giauque "for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures"
Physiology or Medicine to Walter Rudolf Hess "for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs" and to Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses"
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