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The year 1955 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

ASTRONOMY

June 20 - Very long (7 min 8 s) total Solar Eclipse visible in Southeast Asia. During the entire Second Millennium, only seven total solar eclipses exceeded seven minutes of totality. This was the next to last.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

October 2 - The ENIAC computer is deactivated.

Maurice Wilkes publishes a description of Microprogramming in IEEE Spectrum .

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Willis Eugene Lamb , - Polykarp Kusch

--- Chemistry - Vincent Du Vigneaud

--- Medicine - Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell

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DEATHS

March 11 - Alexander Fleming (b. 1881 ), Scientist .

April 18 - Albert Einstein (b. 1879 ), Scientist and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize In Physics .

Oswald Avery (b. 1877 ), Bacteriologist .