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

1 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

2 Births

• April 26April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). There are 249 days remaining. Events 1478 The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral. 1607 English col - David M. BrownBrown ( April 16, 1956 February 1, 2003) was a United States Naval Captain, NASA astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist. He was killed on his first space flight, when the Space Shuttle Columbia ( STS-107) disintegrated during orbital reentry into (d. 2003See also Other events of 2003 List of years in science. 2002 in science 2003 in science 2004 in science. The year 2003 in science and technology observed many events, some of which are included in the list below. Anthropology March 13 The journal Nature r), AmericanThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in astronautBruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit. Picture courtesy NASA An astronaut cosmonaut or taikonaut is a person who travels into space, or who makes a career of doing so. The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary (see.
• October 19October 19 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 73 days remaining. Events 202 BC Battle of Zama, resulting in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. 439 The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in N - Carlo UrbaniCarlo Urbani ( October 19, 1956 March 29, 2003) was an Italian physician and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as a new disease. Urbani was the president of the Italian chapter of Medecins Sans Frontieres and was one of the in (d. 2003See also Other events of 2003 List of years in science. 2002 in science 2003 in science 2004 in science. The year 2003 in science and technology observed many events, some of which are included in the list below. Anthropology March 13 The journal Nature r), physicianA physician is a person who practices medicine. In the United States the term physician is traditional and commonly used. In Britain and Australia, the term doctor is more common as physician refers to specialists in internal medicine. Because of the exte, discoverer of SARS.