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1950 In Science

The year 1950 in Science and Technology included some significant events.

MEDICINE

Antihistamine discovered.

AWARDS

and Atle Selberg

Nobel Prize s

--- 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 .