1955 in science

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

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Computer science 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] 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.

[edit] Computer science

• October 2 - The ENIAC computer is deactivated.

• Maurice Wilkes publishes a description of microprogramming in IEEE Spectrum.
• RAND publishes A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates.

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Willis Eugene Lamb, - Polykarp Kusch
  • Chemistry - Vincent du Vigneaud
  • Medicine- Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• February 2 - Oswald Avery (b. 1877), bacteriologist.
• March 11 - Alexander Fleming (b. 1881), scientist.
• April 18 - Albert Einstein (b. 1879), scientist and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics.