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The year 1952 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Archaeology
Biology
- August 1: Around 9 o'clock AM[verification needed], the San Benedicto Rock Wren goes extinct as its island home is smothered in a massive volcanic eruption.
Medicine
- February 6 - In the United States, a mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient.
Physics
- November 1 - Nuclear testing: Operation Ivy - The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["m" for megaton], at Eniwetok island in the Bikini Atoll located in the Pacific Ocean.
Awards
Births
Deaths
- March 5 - Charles Scott Sherrington (b. 1857), British neurophysiologist & bacteriologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932
- November 2 - Chaim Weizmann (b. 1874), chemist, first President of Israel.
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