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Timeline of American Events 1940-1949

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1943

Biologists Salvador Luria and Max Delbruck demonstrate spontaneous mutation in bacteria.

Biophysicist Britton Chance provides experimental evidence for the formation of an enzyme, substrate complex.

Physicist Luis Alvarez guides a distant plane to a landing using radar.

Dec.

Howard Aiken completes the Harvard-IBM Mark I Automatic Sequence- Controlled Calculator (ASCC).

This complete 1943 contains 50 words. This article contains 1,060 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page).

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