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The year 1955 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.
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Astronomy
- June 20 - Very long (7 min 8 s) 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.
Computer science
- Maurice Wilkes publishes a description of microprogramming in IEEE Spectrum.
- RAND publishes A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates.
Awards
Births
- June 8 - Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the world wide web
- October 28 - Bill Gates, software designer & entrepreneur
Deaths
- February 2 - Oswald Avery (b. 1877), bacteriologist.
- March 11 - Alexander Fleming (b. 1881), scientist.
- April 18 - Albert Einstein (b. 1879), scientist and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics.
- August 12 - James B Sumner (b. 1887), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946
- December 13 - Antonio Egas Moniz, (b. 1874), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949
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