1950 in science

The year 1950 in science and technology included some significant events.

Medicine

• Antihistamine discovered.

Awards

• Fields Prize in Mathematics: Laurent Schwartz and Atle Selberg
• 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.

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