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The year 1950 in science
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
 and technology
Technology

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 included some significant events.








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The year 1950 in science
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
 and technology
Technology

Technology is a broad concept that deals with an animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects an animal species' ability to control and adapt to its Natural environment....
 included some significant events.

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 ....
    .