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    1949 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1949. 1949 (MCMXLIX)...
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  • in 1949. International scientific organisations, such as the International Science Council, are devoted to international cooperation for science advancement...
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    popular science fiction program on American television was the children's adventure serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which ran from June 1949 to...
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    The Royal Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (Dutch: Koninklijk Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, 1778–1962) was a Dutch learned...
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    Pierre Manent (category 1949 births)
    born 6 May 1949) is a French political scientist and academic. He teaches political philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in...
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  • "Political Science". The first three managing editors were W. W. Willoughby (1906–1916), John A. Fairlie (1917–1925), and Frederic A. Ogg (1926–1949). For...
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    Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH). January...
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  • John P. Forrester (25 August 1949 – 24 November 2015) was a British historian and philosopher of science and medicine. His main interests were in the...
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    Jean Rostand (category French philosophers of science)
    biologist, historian of science, and philosopher. Active as an experimental biologist, Rostand became famous for his work as a science writer, as well as a...
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    Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff (category 1949 births)
    bɔɡdanɔf]; 29 August 1949 – 3 January 2022) and Grégoire "Grichka" Youriévitch Bogdanoff (French: [ɡʁeɡwaʁ ɡʁiʃka]; 29 August 1949 – 28 December 2021)...
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    Epistemology. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2010, pg 1-2. Ramsay, J. A. (1 May 1949). "A New Method of Freezing-Point Determination for...
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  • Palmer, Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China / La Fièvre du Quigong: guérison, religion, et politique en Chine, 1949-1999: New York, Columbia...
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  • The year 1958 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. During International Geophysical Year Earth's magnetosphere is...
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    Haber's death en route to Palestine, Weizmann assumed the directorship himself. Before he became President of Israel in February 1949, Weizmann conducted...
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    National Academy of Sciences in the United States, upon which the structure of the SCJ was based. It was officially founded in January 1949 to function as...
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    Laurent Thévenot (category 1949 births)
    Laurent Thévenot (born 1949) is a French sociologist and Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). After initial research...
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    starred in Luis Buñuel's Susana (1951) and musical films such as Serenata en México (1956) and Cuando México canta (1958). Her performances earned her...
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    André Rieu (category 1949 births)
    Nicolas Rieu (Dutch: [ˈɑndreː riˈjøː], French: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁjø]; born 1 October 1949) is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known as the founder of the waltz-playing...
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    Zhou Enlai (redirect from Zhou En-lai)
    economy. As a diplomat, Zhou served as the Chinese foreign minister from 1949 to 1958. Advocating peaceful coexistence with the West after the Korean War...
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    Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and...
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    The Institute of Industrial Science (usually abbreviated as IIS) is an institute within the University of Tokyo (UTokyo). The institute conducts 'scientific...
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    Gerard Kuiper (category American science writers)
    From 1947 to 1949, Kuiper served as the director of the Yerkes Observatory, as well as the McDonald Observatory in west Texas. In 1949, Kuiper initiated...
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    coming into effect on 1 July 1908. November 18 – The steamboat Dix sinks en route from Seattle to Port Blakely claiming the lives of approximately 50...
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    1900 (section Science)
    November 8 – Margaret Mitchell, American novelist (Gone With The Wind) (d. 1949) November 13 – David Marshall Williams, American inventor (d. 1975) November...
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    Nakba (category 1949 in Palestine)
    belligerents: Egypt (on 24 February 1949), Lebanon (23 March 1949), Jordan (3 April 1949), and Syria (20 July 1949). The Iraqis refused to enter into armistice...
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    bolero vocalist (died 1971) Jean-Pierre Wimille, French racing driver (died 1949) February 27 – Herbert Wiere, Austrian-born American slapstick comedian,...
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  • known as Peronism, is elected to his first term as President of Argentina. 1949 – The Armistice Agreements are signed, to formally end the hostilities of...
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    swimmer (d. 1966) January 5 – Jack Lovelock, New Zealand Olympic athlete (d. 1949) January 6 – James "Lugs" Branigan, Irish police detective and boxer (d....
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    When Robert Bigelow, founder of the National Institute for Discovery Science, purchased the ranch for $200,000 in 1996, this was reportedly the result...
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  • boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula en route to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28. This is the second...
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