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==Physics== * January 1 β [[Atomic Energy Research Establishment]] established at [[Harwell, Oxfordshire]] under [[John Cockcroft]]. * May 21 β [[Manhattan Project]] physicist [[Louis Slotin]] accidentally triggers a [[fission reaction]] at the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] and gives himself a lethal dose of [[hard radiation]], making him the second victim of a [[criticality accident]] in history. * The [[BBGKY hierarchy]] of equations for ''s''-particle distribution functions is applied to the derivation of kinetic equations by [[Nikolay Bogolyubov]] in a paper received in July 1945 and published in 1946 in Russian<ref>{{cite journal|first=N. N.|last=Bogoliubov|title=Kinetic Equations|journal=[[Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics]]|volume=16|issue=8|pages=691β702|year=1946}}</ref> and in English.<ref>{{cite journal|first=N. N.|last=Bogoliubov|title=Kinetic Equations|journal=Journal of Physics USSR|volume=10|issue=3|pages=265β274|year=1946}}</ref> The related kinetic transport theory is considered by [[John Gamble Kirkwood]] in a paper<ref>{{cite journal|first=John G.|last=Kirkwood|title=The Statistical Mechanical Theory of Transport Processes I. General Theory|journal=[[Journal of Chemical Physics]]|volume=14|issue=3|pages=180|date=March 1946|doi=10.1063/1.1724117|bibcode=1946JChPh..14..180K }}</ref> received in October 1945 and published in March 1946. The first paper by [[Max Born]] and [[Herbert S. Green]] considering a general kinetic theory of liquids is received in February 1946 and published on 31 December 1946.<ref>{{cite journal|first1=M.|last1=Born|first2=H. S.|last2=Green|title=A General Kinetic Theory of Liquids I. The Molecular Distribution Functions|journal=[[Proceedings of the Royal Society]] A|volume=188|pages=10β18|date=31 December 1946|bibcode = 1946RSPSA.188...10B|doi = 10.1098/rspa.1946.0093|doi-access=}}</ref>
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