The year 1951 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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- Nesting pairs of the Bermuda petrel, thought to have been extinct for more than 300 years, are found.
- Niko Tinbergen publishes The Study of Instinct.
- January 1 – Radia Perlman, American computer software designer and network engineer.
- March 21 – Martin Sweeting, English microsatellite pioneer.
- April 14 – Greg Winter, English biochemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018.
- May – Chen Saijuan, Chinese molecular biologist.
- May 18 – Ben Feringa, Dutch organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016.
- May 26 – Sally Ride (died 2012), American physicist and astronaut.
- July 1 – Niels Krabbe, Danish ornithologist.
- August 24 – Robin McLeod (died 2024), Canadian surgeon.
- September 14 – Duncan Haldane, English-born condensed-matter physicist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics 2016.
- September 18 – John Clark (died 2004), English molecular biologist.
- September 30 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005.
- October 27 – Carlos Frenk, Mexican cosmologist.
Wilkes, Maurice (1951). "The Best Way to Design an Automatic Computing Machine". Report of Manchester University Computer Inaugural Conference. pp. 16–18.
Wilkes, M. V.; Wheeler, D. J.; Gill, S. (1951). The preparation of programs for an electronic digital computer, with special reference to the EDSAC and the use of a library of subroutines. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Press.
Ferry, Georgina (2004). "4". A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the World's First Office Computer. London: Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-1-84115-186-1.
Wilkes, M. V. (1956). Automatic Digital Computers. New York: Wiley.
Rix, Michael (July 1951). "Birmingham". History Today. 1 (7): 59.
University of California Press.
Simpson, Edward H. (1951). "The Interpretation of Interaction in Contingency Tables". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 13 (2): 238–241. doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1951.tb00088.x.
Blyth, Colin R. (1972). "On Simpson's Paradox and the Sure-Thing Principle". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 67 (338): 364–366. doi:10.2307/2284382. JSTOR 2284382.
Writing as "Russel Saunders" in a fictional story "Are the Clipper Ships gone forever?" in Astounding Science-Fiction. Love, Allan W. (June 1985). "In Memory of Carl A. Wiley". Antennas and Propagation Society Newsletter. 27 (3): 17–18. doi:10.1109/MAP.1985.27810.