1956 in science

The year 1956 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics – William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain
  • Chemistry – Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
  • Medicine – André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W Richards

Births

• April 26 – David M. Brown (d. 2003), American astronaut.
• October 19 – Carlo Urbani (d. 2003), physician, discoverer of SARS.

Deaths

• March 17 – Irène Joliot-Curie (b. 1897), scientist.
• September 22 – Frederick Soddy (b. 1877), physical chemist.