1947 In Science
The year 1947 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Anthropology * August 7 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood, balsa-wood raft, the ''Kon-Tiki'', smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 4300-mile (6900-km) journey across the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating that prehistoric peoples could have traveled from South America. Astronomy and space exploration * February 12 – Sikhote-Alin meteorite falls to Earth in Siberia, the largest iron meteorite known to have impacted. * February 20 – The first living things sent into space (and returned) are Drosophila melanogaster, fruit flies, accompanied by rye and cotton seeds, aboard a V-2 rocket launched by the United States Army Ordnance Corps, U.S. Army Ordnance Corps which reaches an altitude of 68 miles (109 km). * Bok globules are reported. Biology * The University of Oxford, Oxford Swift (bird), Swift Research Project, based on the colony at the Oxford University ...
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