By 1946, as the growing fellowship quarreled over structure, purpose, and authority, as well as finances and publicity, Wilson began to form and promote what became known as AA's Twelve Traditions, guidelines for an altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limited AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level while shunning publicity.

* 1946 – Joyce Vincent Wilson, American singer ( Tony Orlando and Dawn )

* 1946 " History of the North American bird fauna " Wilson Bulletin 58: 3 – 41

* 1946 – Demond Wilson, American actor

According to the OED, John Paul Scott coined the word " sociobiology " at a 1946 conference on genetics and social behaviour, and became widely used after it was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

** Carl Wilson, American musician ( The Beach Boys ) ( b. 1946 )

* Daniels, Josephus, The Wilson Era: Years of War and After, 1917-1923 ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1946 )

In 1946, the orchestra moved to the Wilson Theater which was renamed Music Hall.

* Carl Wilson ( 1946 – 1998 ), singer and member of The Beach Boys

In January 1946 he was appointed aide-de-camp to George VI of the United Kingdom and was then created Baron Wilson, of Libya and of Stowlangtoft in the County of Suffolk.

The Tavistock Institute was formed, with Trist as deputy chairman, and Tommy Wilson as chairman, with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in February 1946, and a new Tavistock Clinic became part of the newly formed National Health Service.

* Roger Wilson ( ice hockey ) ( born 1946 ), Canadian / American professional ice hockey player

The youngest person elected General Superintendent was Roy T. Williams ( 1883 – 1946 ), who was only 32 when chosen to fill a vacancy caused by the deaths of Phineas F. Bresee ( 1837 – 1915 ) and William C. Wilson ( 1866 – 1915 ), both of whom died within weeks of the 1915 General Assembly.

Scientists observing the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in 1946 at Bikini Atoll named that transitory cloud a " Wilson cloud " because of its similarity to a Wilson cloud chamber ; the cloud chamber uses condensation from a rapid pressure drop to mark the tracks of electrically charged subatomic particles.

Jones was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1942, for the planning of a raid on Bruneval to capture German radar equipment ( Churchill had proposed that Jones should be appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath ( CB ) but the head of the Civil Service Sir Horace Wilson threatened to resign as Jones was only a lowly Scientific Officer, and the CBE was a compromise ); he was subsequently appointed CB in 1946 ; and Companion of Honour ( CH ) in the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours.

By 1946 AA cofounder Bill Wilson had more clearly formulated the basic ideas for the Twelve Traditions directly from such correspondence with groups ( via the group conscience method ), setting guidelines on how groups and members should interact with each other, the public, and AA as a whole.

Grady Demond Wilson ( born October 13, 1946 ) is an American actor, author, and pastor.

* Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, a senior British general in the Second World War, was created Baron Wilson, of Libya and of Stowlangtoft in the County of Suffolk, in 1946.

In 1946, GM President Charles Wilson offered him the position of executive vice president — to be Wilson's right hand man — but Curtice declined, stating that he wished to see Buicks rolling again off the assembly line before he left the division.

During World War II, Wilson directed the company's huge defense production effort, which earned him a U. S. Medal of Merit in 1946.

It was created in 1946 for the prominent military commander Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson.

* Daniels, Josephus, The Wilson Era: Years of War and After, 1917-1923 ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1946 )

After the war Wilson also helped form the Federation of American Scientists and served as its chairman in 1946.

After Ellen Runyon died of the effects of her own drinking problems, Runyon and Patrice married ; that marriage ended in 1946 when Patrice left Runyon for a younger man.

Since Mountbatten had no sons, when he was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma of Romsey in the County of Southampton on 27 August 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in the County of Southampton on 28 October 1947, the Letters Patent were drafted such that in the event he left no sons or issue in the male line, the titles could pass to his daughters, in order of seniority of birth, and to their heirs male respectively.

Most scholars have agreed with the assessment made by Hans Bethe in 1952, which concluded that by the time Fuchs left the thermonuclear program — the summer of 1946 — there was too little known about the mechanism of the hydrogen bomb for his information to be of any necessary use to the Soviet Union ( the successful Teller-Ulam design was not discovered until 1951 ).

He left the University of California to become professor at Indiana University, holding this position from 1946 until he retired in 1971.

He played his entire 22-year Major League Baseball career as the left fielder for the Boston Red Sox ( 1939 – 1942 and 1946 – 1960 ).

Nevertheless, in February 1946 Rodriguez left New Mexico to join Williams in his New Orleans apartment and they lived and traveled together until late 1947 when Williams ended the affair.

The last British troops left Indonesia in November 1946, but by this time 55, 000 Dutch troops had landed in Java.

The monarchy formally ended on 12 June 1946, and Umberto left the country.

When Umberto II left Italy after a referendum abolishing the monarchy in 1946 ( see also birth of the Italian Republic ), the Savoy family lived in exile, mostly in Switzerland and Portugal.

Both Eckert and Mauchly left the Moore School in March 1946 over a dispute involving assignment of claims on intellectual property developed at the University.

In 1946, Childe left his post at Edinburgh University in order to take up the job a both Director and Professor of European Prehistory at the Institute of Archaeology in London.

He rose to be district chief, but left the movement after just one year, following the return of the French to southern Vietnam in 1946 to contest Việt Minh control.

He left active duty in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant colonel and with a Legion of Merit.

A recipient of the Purple Heart and several other decorations, Laird left the Navy in April 1946.

* Balzac, 1946 – written, as Richard Friedenthal describes in a postscript, by Zweig in the Brazilian summer capital of Petrópolis, without access to the files, notebooks, lists, tables, editions and monographs that Zweig accumulated for many years and that he took with him to Bath, but that he left behind when he went to America.

" Friedenthal claimed that " The book had been finished ", though not every chapter was complete ; he used a working copy of the manuscript Zweig left behind him to apply " the finishing touches ", and Friedenthal rewrote the final chapters ( Balzac, translated by William and Dorothy Rose York: Viking, 1946, pp. 399, 402 ).

He left in 1946 to become an assistant professor, and later associate professor, at the University of Chicago.

In 1946, after a dispute between Clampett and the new head Eddie Selzer, Clampett left Warner Bros. and struck out on his own.

After high school, Haney left her home town for Hollywood and landed bit parts in movies until she was spotted by dancer / choreographer Jack Cole, becoming his dance partner and assistant from 1946 – 48.

Fritz and Laura Perls left South Africa in 1946 and ended up in New York, where Fritz Perls worked briefly with Karen Horney, and Wilhelm Reich.

The coin should have been framed by manager George Kay as he made an immediate impact at the club, making his debut on the 14 September 1946 in a league match at Burnden Park he scored an 82nd minute goal as the Reds left it late to claim all the spoils in a 3-1 victory over Bolton Wanderers.

He left Edna Clarke behind in Britain when he returned to Kenya in 1946.

Bunk ( left ) with Leadbelly in New York City, 1946

In 1946, King Zog and most of his family left England and went to live in Egypt at the behest of King Farouk, who was overthrown in 1952.

Durrell left Whipsnade Zoo in May, 1946 in order to join wildlife collecting expeditions of the time, but was denied a place in the voyages due to his lack of experience.