Editing 1947 in science (section)

==Biology==
* The [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] [[Swift (bird)|Swift]] Research Project, based on the colony at the [[Oxford University Museum of Natural History]], is started by [[David Lack|David and Elizabeth Lack]]. It will still be running more than sixty years later.<ref>{{cite web|title=The swifts in the tower|url=http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/visiting/swifts/index.htm|publisher=Oxford University Museum of Natural History|accessdate=2011-03-17|archive-date=2011-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110311033849/http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/visiting/swifts/index.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Museum Swifts: the story of the swifts in the tower of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History|first1=Andrew|last1=Lack|authorlink=Andrew Lack (author)|first2=Roy|last2=Overall|publisher=Oxford University Museum of Natural History|year=2002|isbn=0-9542726-0-9}}</ref>
* [[David Lack]] publishes ''Darwin's Finches''.
* ''[[Zika virus]]'' first isolated from a [[rhesus macaque]] in the [[Zika Forest]] of [[Uganda]].
* ''[[Influenza C virus]]'' first isolated.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Asha|first1=Kumari|last2=Kumar|first2=Binod|date=2019-02-05|title=Emerging Influenza D Virus Threat: What We Know so Far!|journal=Journal of Clinical Medicine|volume=8|issue=2|pages=192–|doi=10.3390/jcm8020192|pmc=6406440|pmid=30764577|doi-access=free}}</ref>