See also: 1946 in science, other events of 1947, 1948 in science and the list of years in science.
Anthropology August 7 - Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day 4,300 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. Computer science July 29 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a refurbishment, ENIAC, one of the world's first digital computers, is turned on after a memory upgrade. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955. Awards Nobel Prizes Physics - Edward Victor Appleton Chemistry - Sir Robert Robinson Medicine - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay Deaths December 17 - J. N. Bronsted, physical chemist.
