Editing 1946 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* July 14 – Dr. [[Benjamin Spock]]'s ''[[The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care]]'' is first published in [[New York (state)|New York]]; it becomes one of the biggest best-sellers of all time.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1998/03/17/echoes-from-the-baby-boom-appreciation-for-50-years-parents-turned-to-the-book-by-dr-benjamin-spock-for-the-most-common-sense-advice-about-raising-children/|newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|title=Echoes from the baby boom appreciation: for 50 years, parents turned to the book by Dr. Benjamin Spock for the most common-sense advice about raising children|first=Patricia|last=Meisol|date=17 March 1998|access-date=2010-03-31|archive-date=2010-05-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100516023311/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-03-17/features/1998076006_1_spock-raising-children-parents/2|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Harold Gillies]] begins to perform [[sex reassignment surgery]] on [[Michael Dillon]], including the first [[phalloplasty]] for a [[trans man]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/books/review/Roach.t.html|title=Girls Will Be Boys|first=Mary|last=Roach|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2007-03-18|access-date=2007-03-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120714071814/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/books/review/Roach.t.html |archive-date=July 14, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Chance Brothers]] of [[Smethwick]], England, produce the first all-glass [[syringe]] with interchangeable barrel and plunger, allowing easy mass-sterilisation of components.
* [[Alfred Gilman, Sr.|Alfred Gilman]], with Frederick S. Philips, first publish the results of trials of anti-[[cancer]] [[chemotherapy]], using [[mechlorethamine]], carried out with Louis S. Goodman.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gilman|first1=Alfred|last2=Philips|first2=Frederick S.|title=The Biological Actions and Therapeutic Applications of the Β-Chloroethyl Amines and Sulfides|journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]]|volume=103|issue=2675|pages=409–15, 436|date=5 April 1946|bibcode = 1946Sci...103..409G |doi = 10.1126/science.103.2675.409|pmid=17751251|jstor=1673195}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Gilman|first=Alfred|title=The Initial Clinical Trial of Nitrogen Mustard|journal= American Journal of Surgery|year=1963|volume=105|pages=574–578|pmid=13947966|doi=10.1016/0002-9610(63)90232-0|issue=5}}</ref>