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

1 Astronomy

• June 20 - Very long (7min 08sec) 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.

2 Computer science

• October 2 - The ENIAC computer is deactivated.

• Maurice Wilkes publishes a description of microprogramming in IEEE Spectrum.

3 Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Willis Eugene Lamb, - Polykarp KuschPolykarp Kusch ( January 26, 1911 March 20, 1993) was a German-American physicist who, with Willis Eugene Lamb, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955 for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron was greater than its th
  • ChemistryList of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s External link http://www. se/chemistry/laureates/i - Vincent du VigneaudVincent du Vigneaud ( 1901 1978) was a U. bio chemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955. Earlier in his life he joined Alpha Chi Sigma while at University of Illinois in 1930. External link http://nobelprize. org/chemistry/laureates/1955/vigneaud
  • MedicineList of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s External links http://www. se/medicin- Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell

4 Births

5 Deaths

• April 18April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). There are 257 days remaining. Events 1518 Bona Sforza is crowned as queen of Poland and married to Sigismund I of Poland. 1775 Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Pre - Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein ( March 14 1879 April 18 1955) was a theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics (b. 1879), scientist and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics.