Overview of the events of 1956 in science
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The year 1956 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Chemistry
- July 14 – Second part of the publication of Dorothy Hodgkin's description of the structure of Vitamin B12.[3]
Climatology
- May – Gilbert Plass publishes his seminal article "The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change".[4]
Computer science
Mathematics
Medicine
Physics
Psychology
Technology
Awards
Births
- February 28 – Penny Sackett, American-born Australian astronomer and Chief Scientist.
- April 16 – David M. Brown (died 2003), American astronaut.
- April 19 – Anne Glover, Scottish biologist.
- May 3 – Carlo Rovelli, Italian-born theoretical physicist.
- May 20 – Marlene Zuk, American biologist.
- July 1 – Gregg L. Semenza, American cell biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- July 25 – Frances Arnold, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- September 9 – Avi Wigderson, Israeli-born mathematician.
- October 17 – Mae Jemison, African American engineer and astronaut.
- October 19 – Carlo Urbani (died 2003), Italian physician, discoverer of SARS.
- December 23 – Simon Wessely, English psychiatrist.
- Zhuo-Hua Pan, Chinese-born neuroscientist
Deaths
- February 3 – Émile Borel (born 1871), French mathematician.
- February 28 – Frigyes Riesz (born 1880), Hungarian mathematician.
- March 17 – Irène Joliot-Curie (born 1897), French radiochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- March 22 – George Sarton (born 1884), Belgian American historian of science.
- May 24 – Martha Annie Whiteley (born 1866), English chemist and mathematician.
- August 25 – Alfred Kinsey (born 1894), American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University (Bloomington).
- September 22 – Frederick Soddy (born 1877), English radiochemist.
- October 30 – María Teresa Ferrari (born 1887), Argentine physician.
- November 10 – Henry Luke Bolley (born 1865), American plant pathologist.
- November 24 – Sir Lionel Whitby (born 1895), English haematologist, clinical pathologist, pharmacologist and army officer.
References
- ^ Harman, Denham (1956). "Aging: a theory based on free radical and radiation chemistry". Journal of Gerontology. 11 (3): 298–300. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.663.3809. doi:10.1093/geronj/11.3.298. PMID 13332224.
- ^ Whitten, W. K. (14 January 1956). "Culture of Tubal Mouse Ova". Nature. 177 (4498): 96. Bibcode:1956Natur.177...96W. doi:10.1038/177096a0. PMID 13288608.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Plass, Gilbert N. (1956). "The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change". Tellus. 8 (2): 140–54. Bibcode:1956TellA...8..140P. doi:10.1111/j.2153-3490.1956.tb01206.x.
- ^ "The TX-0: Its Past and Present" (PDF). The Computer Museum Report. 8. The Computer Museum, Boston: 2–11. Spring 1984. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
- ^ Kruskal, Joseph B. (1956). "On the shortest spanning subtree of a graph and the traveling salesman problem". Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 7 (1): 48–50. doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1956-0078686-7. JSTOR 2033241.
- ^ Mac Lane, Saunders (1956). "Review: Homological algebra, by Henri Cartan and Samuel Eilenberg". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 62 (6): 615–624. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1956-10082-7.
- ^ Serre, Jean-Pierre (1956). "Géométrie algébrique et géométrie analytique". Annales de l'Institut Fourier. 6: 1–42. doi:10.5802/aif.59. MR 0082175.
- ^ Burwell, C. Sidney; Robin, Eugene D.; Whaley, Robert D.; Bicklemann, Albert G. (1956). "Extreme obesity associated with alveolar hypoventilation – a Pickwickian syndrome". The American Journal of Medicine. 21 (5): 811–8. doi:10.1016/0002-9343(56)90094-8. PMID 13362309. Reproduced as Burwell, C. S.; Robin, E. D.; Whaley, R. D.; Bicklemann, A. G. (1994). "Extreme obesity associated with alveolar hypoventilation; a Pickwickian syndrome". Obesity Research. 2 (4): 390–7. doi:10.1002/j.1550-8528.1994.tb00084.x. PMID 16353591.
- ^ Walshe, John M. (January 1956). "Wilson's disease; new oral therapy". The Lancet. 270 (6906): 25–6. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(56)91859-1. PMID 13279157.
- ^ US Patent #3097366 of 1963. "Inventor of the Week Archive". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. September 2005. Archived from the original on 2006-01-27. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
- ^ Cooper, Leon N. (1956). "Bound electron pairs in a degenerate Fermi gas". Physical Review. 104 (4): 1189–1190. Bibcode:1956PhRv..104.1189C. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.104.1189.
- ^ "New Atomic Reactor Opens". Birmingham Daily Post. 1956-11-22. p. 24.
- ^ "The Reines-Cowan Experiments: Detecting the Poltergeist" (PDF). Los Alamos Science. 25: 3. 1997.
- ^ Bensinger, Charles (1981). "All About Videotape". VideoPreservation Website. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
- ^ "Some Quad History". Quad Videotape Group. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
- ^ "New kind of alarm clock". telechron.net. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
- ^ "Calder Hall Power Station". The Engineer. 5 October 1956.
- ^ "Sellafield Sites, Site history". Archived from the original on 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
- ^ Wilson, Stewart (2000). Combat Aircraft since 1945. Fyshwick, ACT, Australia: Aerospace Publications Pty Ltd. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-875671-50-2.
- ^ Epand, Len (April 1976). "A Phantom Orchestra at Your Fingertips" (PDF). Crawdaddy!: A27–A28. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
- ^ "These Nobel Prize Winners Weren't Always Noble". National Geographic News. 6 October 2015. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2021.