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Overview of the events of 1950 in science
The year 1950 in science and technology included some significant events.
Astronomy and space sciences
Biology
Chemistry
Computer science
Mathematics
Medicine
Physics
Technology
Events
Awards
Births
March 2 – James W. Pennebaker , American social psychologist .
March 5 – Henry Marsh , English neurosurgeon .
March 18 – Linda Partridge , English biogerontologist .
May 16 – Georg Bednorz , German physicist, Nobel Prize in physics 1987.
October 21 – Ronald McNair (died on mission 1986 ), African American physicist and astronaut .
November 1 – Robert B. Laughlin , American physicist, Nobel prize in physics 1998.
November 3 – James Rothman , American cell biologist , Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013.
November 22 – Eva-Maria Neher , née Ruhr, German biochemist .
December 13 – Julia Slingo , English meteorologist .
Deaths
References
^ Oort, Jan (1950). "The structure of the cloud of comets surrounding the Solar System and a hypothesis concerning its origin". Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of the Netherlands . 11 : 91–110. Bibcode :1950BAN....11...91O .
^ Bassham, J.; Benson, A.; Calvin, M. (1950). "The path of carbon in photosynthesis" (PDF) . Journal of Biological Chemistry . 185 (2): 781–7. doi :10.2172/910351 . PMID 14774424 . {{cite journal }}
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^ Thompson, S. G.; Street, Jr. K.; Ghiorso, A.; Seaborg, G. T. (1950). "Element 98" . Physical Review . 78 (3): 298. Bibcode :1950PhRv...78..298T . doi :10.1103/PhysRev.78.298.2 .
^ Thompson, S. G.; Street, Jr. K.; Ghiorso, A.; Seaborg, G. T. (1950). "The New Element Californium (Atomic Number 98)" (PDF) . Physical Review . 80 (5): 790. Bibcode :1950PhRv...80..790T . doi :10.1103/PhysRev.80.790 .
^ Street, K., Jr.; Thompson, S. G.; Seaborg, G. T. (1950). "Chemical Properties of Californium" (PDF) . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 72 (10): 4832. doi :10.1021/ja01166a528 . {{cite journal }}
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^ Shannon, Claude E. (March 1950). "Programming a Computer for Playing Chess" (PDF) . Philosophical Magazine . 41 (314): 256–75. Retrieved 2012-01-20 .
^ Hamming, R. W. (April 1950). "Error detecting and error correcting codes" (PDF) . Bell System Technical Journal . 29 (2): 147–160. doi :10.1002/j.1538-7305.1950.tb00463.x . Retrieved 2012-05-12 .
^ O'Connor, J. J.; Robertson, E. F. (January 2012). "Richard Wesley Hamming" . MacTutor History of Mathematics archive . University of St Andrews . Retrieved 2012-05-12 .
^ Turing, A. M. (October 1950). "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" . Mind . 59 (236): 433–60. doi :10.1093/mind/LIX.236.433 . Retrieved 2011-11-28 .
^ Epstein, Robert; Roberts, Gary; Beber, Grace, eds. (2009). Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer . New York: Kluwer. ISBN 978-1-4020-6708-2 .
^ Osborne, M. J. (2004), An Introduction to Game Theory , Oxford University Press, p. 23
^ Nash, J. F. (1950). "Equilibrium Points in N-person Games" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 36 (1): 48–9. Bibcode :1950PNAS...36...48N . doi :10.1073/pnas.36.1.48 . MR 0031701 . PMC 1063129 . PMID 16588946 . .
^ Nash, J. F. (1950). "The Bargaining Problem". Econometrica (18): 155–62. MR 0035977 . .
^ Poundstone, William (1992). Prisoner's Dilemma . New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385415672 .
^ Petechuk, David (2006). Organ transplantation . Greenwood. p. 11. ISBN 0-313-33542-7 .
^ Barrett, N. R. (October 1950). "Chronic Peptic Ulcer of the Œsophagus and 'Œsophagitis' " (PDF) . British Journal of Surgery . 38 (150): 175–82. doi :10.1002/bjs.18003815005 . PMID 14791960 . Retrieved 2012-02-08 .
^ Ward, J. C. (1950). "An identity in quantum electrodynamics" . Physical Review . 78 : 182. Bibcode :1950PhRv...78..182W . doi :10.1103/PhysRev.78.182 .
^ "C.B.S. Color Video Starts Nov. 20; Adapters Needed by Present Sets". New York Times . 1950-10-12. p. 1.
^ Slotten, Hugh Richard (2000). Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States 1920–1960 . JHU Press. ISBN 0-8018-6450-X .
^ "The Greatest Canadian Invention" . CBC Television . Archived from the original on October 30, 2010.
^ "Pocket Radio Pages Doctors Night Or Day" . Popular Science . January 1951.