1954 in science

1954 in science

The year 1954 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy

* November 30 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, an 8.5 pound sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise (this is the first known modern case of a human being hit by a space rock).

Computer science

* January 7 - Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system held in New York at the head office of IBM.

Medicine

* February 23 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
* The first organ transplants are done in Boston and Paris.
** March 4 - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston announces the first successful kidney transplant.
* The first of the anti-psychotic phenothiazine drugs, Chlorpromazine started being sold with the trade names "Thorazine" (America) and "Largactil" (United Kingdom).

Psychology

*"Man Meets Dog" is published by Konrad Lorenz.

Technology

* September 30 - USS Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (submarine), commissioned by the US Navy

Awards

*Fields Prize in Mathematics: Kunihiko Kodaira and Jean-Pierre Serre
* Nobel Prizes
** Physics - Max Born, - Walther Bothe
** Chemistry - Linus Carl Pauling
** Medicine - John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins

Births

* June 20 - Ilan Ramon (d. 2003), Israeli astronaut.

Deaths

* November 29 - Enrico Fermi (b. 1901), physicist.

Foundations

*1954 September 29: CERN is founded by 12 European states. [http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/About/History54-en.html] ]

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