Editing 1947 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* January – [[Prosopagnosia]] is first named by German neurologist [[:de:Joachim Bodamer|Joachim Bodamer]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Joachim|last=Bodamer|journal=Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten|title=Die Prosop-Agnosie: Die Agnosie des Physiognomieerkennens|year=1947|volume=179|pages=6–53}}</ref>
* August 20 – [[Doctors' Trial]] concludes, establishing the [[Nuremberg Code]] as a model of [[research ethics]] for [[human subject research]].<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1353/bhm.2001.0049|title=The Origins of Informed Consent: The International Scientific Commission on Medical War Crimes, and the Nuremburg Code|year=2001|last1=Weindling|first1=Paul|journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine|volume=75|issue=1|pages=37–71|pmid=11420451|s2cid=20239629}}</ref>
* November 29 – [[Mary Barber (bacteriologist)|Mary Barber]] publishes her classic paper on [[antibiotic resistance]] in ''[[Staphylococcus]]'' [[bacteria]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Staphylococcal Infection due to Penicillin-Resistant Strains|first=Mary|last=Barber|journal=[[British Medical Journal]]|date=1947-11-29|volume=2|issue=4534|pages=863–865|doi=10.1136/bmj.2.4534.863|pmc=2056216|pmid=20272443}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|authorlink=Hugh Pennington |last=Pennington |first=Hugh |url=http://www.publicservice.co.uk/feature_story.asp?id=13593 |title=Rooting out the villains |date=2010-02-09 |publisher=Public Service.co.uk |accessdate=2012-12-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110228090904/http://www.publicservice.co.uk/feature_story.asp?id=13593 |archivedate=2011-02-28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Haines|first=Catharine M. C.|year=2001|title=International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950|isbn=1-57607-090-5|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara|url=https://archive.org/details/internationalwom00hain}}</ref>
* The first [[antithyroid agent|antithyroid drug]], [[propylthiouracil]], is introduced in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Skugor|first1=Mario|last2=Wilder|first2=Jesse Bryant|title=The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Thyroid Disorders|year=2009|location=New York|publisher=Kaplan Publishing|isbn=978-1-4277-9969-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/clevelandclinicg00skug/page/71 71]|url= https://archive.org/details/clevelandclinicg00skug|url-access=registration|quote=propylthiouracil introduced 1947.| accessdate=13 September 2011 <!--DASHBot-->}}</ref>
* The first use of [[defibrillation]] on a human subject is performed by Claude Beck, professor of surgery at [[Case Western Reserve University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/dittrick/museum/artifacts1/defibrllator.html|title=Claude Beck, defibrillation and CPR|publisher=Case Western Reserve University|year=2010|accessdate=2012-06-13}}</ref>