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The year 1950 in science and technology included some significant events.
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Medicine
- Antihistamine discovered.
Awards
Births
- May 16 - J. Georg Bednorz, physicist, Nobel Prize in physics 1987
- October 21 - Ronald McNair (d. 1986), astronaut
- Robert B Laughlin, physicist, Nobel prize in physics 1998
Deaths
- February 25 - George Minot (b. 1885), physician, Nobel prize in Medicine or Physiology 1934
- September 21 - Arthur Milne (b. 1896), British space physicist.
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