Editing 1943 in science (section)

==Technology==
* March 5 – The [[Gloster Meteor]], the first operational military [[jet aircraft]] for the [[Allies of World War II]], has its first test flight, in England.
* May 16–17 – [[Operation Chastise]]: British [[Royal Air Force]] attacks [[Nazi Germany|German]] [[dam]]s using '[[bouncing bomb]]s' designed by [[Barnes Wallis]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Flower|first=Stephen|year=2002|title=A Hell Of A Bomb|publisher=Tempus|isbn=978-0-7524-2386-9}}</ref>
* [[Lyle Goodhue]] and [[William Sullivan (inventor)|William Sullivan]] [[patent]] the refillable [[aerosol spray]] in the United States, for use with [[mosquito]]–[[Insect repellent|repellant]].<ref>{{cite book|editor1=McGrath, Kimberley A.|editor2=Travers, Bridget E.|title=World of Invention|url=http://www.bookrags.com/research/aerosol-spray-woi/|publisher=Thomson Gale |location=Detroit |isbn=978-0-7876-2759-1|access-date=27 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605044031/http://www.bookrags.com/research/aerosol-spray-woi/|archive-date=5 June 2011|url-status=live|year=1999}}</ref>
* [[Krueger flap]]s for aircraft wings are invented by [[Werner Krüger]] and evaluated in the wind tunnels in [[Göttingen]].