1956 in science - Definition and Overview

The year 1956 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain
  • Chemistry - Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
  • Medicine - André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W Richards

Births

• April 26 - David M. Brown (d. 2003), American astronaut.
• October 19 - Carlo Urbani (d. 2003), physician, discoverer of SARS.

Deaths

• March 17 - Irène Joliot-Curie (b. 1897), scientist.
• September 22 - Frederick Soddy (b. 1877), physical chemist.