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17 January 1944 discovery of 3037 Alku
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23 October 1944 Death of Charles Glover Barkla
22 November 1944, Death of Arthur Stanley Eddington in Cambridge, England
1944 Birth of Jeffrey Hoffman,
1944 Birth of Shin-ichi Kurokawa
Nobel Prize
Physics to Isidor Isaac Rabi "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei"
Chemistry to Otto Hahn "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei"
Physiology or Medicine to Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Spencer Gasser "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"
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