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1950 in science

The year 1950 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

See also: 1949 in science, other events of 1950, 1951 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Medicine 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths

Medicine

• Antihistamine discovered.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Cecil Frank Powell
  • Chemistry - Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder
  • Medicine - Edward Calvin Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, Philip Showalter Hench

Births

• May 16 - J. Georg Bednorz, physicist, Nobel Prize in physics 1987

Deaths

• September 21 - Arthur Milne, British space physicist

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