1950 in science
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The year 1950 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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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
- October 21 – Ronald McNair (d. 1986), astronaut.
Deaths
- September 21 – Arthur Milne (b. 1896), British space physicist.
Categories: 1950 | Years in science