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The year 1954 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Astronomy
- November 30 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, an 8.5 pound sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise (this is the first known modern case of a human being hit by a space rock).
Computer science
- January 7 - Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system held in New York at the head office of IBM.
Medicine
- February 23 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- The first organ transplants are done in Boston and Paris.
- March 4 - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston announces the first successful kidney transplant.
- The first of the anti-psychotic phenothiazine drugs, Chlorpromazine started being sold with the trade names "Thorazine" (America) and Largactil (United Kingdom).
Psychology
- Man Meets Dog is published by Konrad Lorenz.
Technology
- September 30 - USS Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (submarine), commissioned by the US Navy
Awards
Births
- June 20 - Ilan Ramon (d. 2003), Israeli astronaut.
Deaths
- March 7 - Otto Diels (b. 1876), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950
- April 10 - Auguste Lumiere (b. 1862), inventor, film pioneer
- June 7 - Alan Turing (b. 1912), mathematician & pioneer of computer science
- November 29 - Enrico Fermi (b. 1901), physicist.
Foundations
- 1954 September 29: CERN is founded by 12 European states.[1]
References
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