1950 in science

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Medicine

• Antihistamine
  Antihistamine
  
  An H1 antagonist is a histamine antagonist of the histamine H1 receptor that serves to reduce or eliminate effects mediated by histamine, an endogenous chemical mediator released during allergy....
   discovered.

Awards

• Fields Prize in Mathematics
  Fields Medal
  
  The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of Mathematicians of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years....
  : Laurent Schwartz
  Laurent Schwartz
  
  Laurent-Mo?se Schwartz was a France mathematician....
   and Atle Selberg
  Atle Selberg
  
  Atle Selberg was a Norway mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory....
  
• Nobel Prize
  Nobel Prize
  
  The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
  s
• Physics
  Nobel Prize in Physics
  
  The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
   - Cecil Frank Powell
  Cecil Frank Powell
  
  Cecil Frank Powell was a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel laureates for his development of the nuclear emulsion of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion , a heavy subatomic particle while working at Bristol University....
  
• Chemistry
  Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  
  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Pri...
   - Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder
  Kurt Alder
  
  Kurt Alder was a German chemistry and Nobel laureate....
  
• Medicine
  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  
  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
   - Edward Calvin Kendall
  Edward Calvin Kendall
  
  Edward Calvin Kendall was an United States chemist who, together with Philip Showalter Hench and Tadeus Reichstein, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for research at the Mayo Clinic, University of Minnesota on the structure and biological effects of adrenal cortex hormones....
  , Tadeus Reichstein
  Tadeus Reichstein
  
  Tadeusz Reichstein was a Poland Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate.Reichstein was born into a Jewish family at Wloclawek, Congress Poland, and spent his early childhood at Kiev, where his father was an engineer....
  , Philip Showalter Hench
  Philip Showalter Hench
  
  Philip Showalter Hench was an United States physician who, with E. C. Kendall, in 1948 successfully applied an adrenal hormone in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis at the Mayo Clinic....
  

Births

• May 16 - J. Georg Bednorz, physicist, Nobel Prize in physics
  Nobel Prize in Physics
  
  The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
   1987
• October 21 - Ronald McNair
  Ronald McNair
  
  Ronald Ervin McNair, Ph.D. was an African American physicist and NASA astronaut. McNair perished during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L....
   (d. 1986
  1986 in science
  
  The year 1986 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below....
  ), astronaut
  Astronaut
  
  An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a List of human spaceflight programs to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
  .

Deaths

• September 21 - Arthur Milne
  Arthur Milne
  
  Edward Arthur Milne Royal Society was a British astrophysicist and mathematician.Milne was born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England. He attended Hymers College and from there he won an open scholarship in mathematics and natural science to study at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1914, gaining the largest number of marks which had ever...
   (b. 1896
  1896 in science
  
  The year 1896 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below....
  ), British
  United Kingdom
  
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
   space
  Space
  
  Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which Physical body and events occur and have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physics usually consider it, with time, to be part of the boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime....
   physicist
  Physicist
  
  A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
  .