Science on the year of 1956 in history

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Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1955 Wesley K. Whitten	science	Wesley K. Whitten (biology) Wesley K. Whitten reports developing eight-cell mouse ova to blastocyst stage in vitro.
30 Nov 1955 Asian flu	science	Asian flu (medicine) Asian flu pandemic originates in China.
30 Nov 1955 antineutrino	science	antineutrino (physics) Existence of the antineutrino is experimentally confirmed by the Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment carried out by Clyde L. Cowan and Frederick Reines.
30 Nov 1955 antineutron	science	antineutron (physics) Existence of the antineutron is experimentally confirmed by University of California, Berkeley physicist Bruce Cork.
30 Nov 1955 DIDO	science	DIDO (physics) DIDO heavy water enriched uranium nuclear reactor begins operation at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Oxfordshire.
30 Nov 1955 Chamberlin	science	Chamberlin (technology) First Chamberlin electro-mechanical keyboard instrument, developed and patented by Wisconsin inventor Harry Chamberlin, is introduced.
01 Jan 1956 Leon Festinger	science	Leon Festinger (psychology) Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken and Stanley Schachter's book When Prophecy Fails provides a classic study of disconfirmed expectancy.
03 Feb 1956 Émile Borel	science	death Émile Borel Émile Borel (born 1871), mathematician.
05 Feb 1956 First concrete TV tower	science	First concrete TV tower In 1956, the world's first concrete television tower on the Hoher Bopser hill was inaugurated in Stuttgart, Germany, for Süddeutscher Rundfunk (now SWR). Instead of a steel girder transmitter mast, design engineers Fritz Leonhardt, Erwin Heinle and Rolf Gutbrod originated a 217-m steel-topped concrete needle to broadcast TV and FM radio. The observation decks three-fourths to the top provide tourists with views of Stuttgart, the local forests, vineyards and the Alps. It was built in 20 months at a cost of 4.2 million DM. Similar designs have since been used for many television towers around the world. The inauguration was attended by Anastas Iwanowitsch Mikojan, who later became head of state of the Soviet Union.
28 Feb 1956 Frigyes Riesz	science	death Frigyes Riesz Died 28 Feb 1956 at age 76 (born 22 Jan 1880). Hungarian mathematician and pioneer of functional analysis, which has found important applications to mathematical physics. His theorem, now called the Riesz-Fischer theorem, which he proved in 1907, is fundamental in the Fourier analysis of Hilbert space. It was the mathematical basis for proving that matrix mechanics and wave mechanics were equivalent. This is of fundamental importance in early quantum theory. His book Leçon's d'analyse fonctionnelle (written jointly with his student B Szökefalvi-Nagy) is one of the most readable accounts of functional analysis ever written. Beyond any mere abstraction for the sake of a structure theory, he was always turning back to the applications in some concrete and substantial situation.
01 Mar 1956 Denham Harman	science	Denham Harman (biology) Denham Harman proposes the free-radical theory of aging.
13 Mar 1956 Daniel Cowan Jackling	science	death Daniel Cowan Jackling Died 13 Mar 1956 at age 86 (born 14 Aug 1869). American mining engineer and metallurgist who founded the Utah Copper Company and with an economical method to process low-grade porphyry copper ores, below 2% copper. As electicity use expanded in the early 20th century, so demand for copper rose, and the need to exploit even low-grade ore. Such ore was obtained by open-pit mining then loaded by steam shovels into railroad cars and transported to concentrating mills. Jackling developed improved extraction/flotation processes to produce a higher-grade concentrate for smelting. By the time Jackling died, over 60% of the world's copper production took advantage of his low-grade ore processing methods. His Bingham Canyon Mine, now a huge pit, still produces copper.
17 Mar 1956 Irène Joliot-Curie	science	death Irène Joliot-Curie Irène Joliot-Curie (born 1897), scientist.
22 Mar 1956 George Sarton	science	death George Sarton George Sarton (born 1884), historian of science.
31 Mar 1956 Space cabin	science	Space cabin In 1956, the first U.S. space cabin simulator was tested.
14 Apr 1956 quadruplex videotape	science	quadruplex videotape (technology) 2-inch quadruplex videotape, the first practical and commercially successful analog recording videotape format, is released for the broadcast television industry by Ampex of Redwood City, California.
16 Apr 1956 David M. Brown	science	birth David M. Brown David M. Brown (died 2003), American astronaut.
19 Apr 1956 Anne Glover	science	birth Anne Glover Anne Glover, Scottish biologist.
01 May 1956 Gilbert Plass	science	Gilbert Plass (climatology) Gilbert Plass publishes his seminal article "The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change".
01 May 1956 Minamata disease	science	Minamata disease (medicine) Minamata disease epidemic is identified in Japan.
20 May 1956 Marlene Zuk	science	birth Marlene Zuk Marlene Zuk, American biologist.
25 Aug 1956 Alfred Kinsey	science	death Alfred Kinsey Alfred Kinsey (born 1894), American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University.
27 Aug 1956 Calder Hall nuclear power station	science	Calder Hall nuclear power station (technology) Calder Hall nuclear power station in England is first connected to the National Grid. This Magnox plant is the world's first nuclear power plant to deliver electricity in commercial quantities. Official opening is on October 17.
13 Sep 1956 hard disk drive	science	hard disk drive (computer science) The hard disk drive is invented by an IBM team led by Reynold B. Johnson.
14 Sep 1956 Lobotomy	science	Lobotomy In 1956, the first U.S. prefrontal lobotomy surgery was performed. Surgeons J.W. Watts and Walter Freeman operated on a 63-year-old woman at the George Washington University Hospital.
22 Sep 1956 Frederick Soddy	science	death Frederick Soddy Frederick Soddy (born 1877), physical chemist.
19 Oct 1956 Carlo Urbani	science	birth Carlo Urbani Carlo Urbani (died 2003), Italian physician, discoverer of SARS.
29 Oct 1956 Fritz Hofmann	science	death Fritz Hofmann Died 29 Oct 1956 at age 90 (born 11 Feb 1866). Friedrich C. Hofmann was a German chemist who polymerized isoprene to create synthetic rubber (1909) while working as a senior chemist for Elberfelder Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co. The process was granted the world's first patent for a “Method for producing synthetic rubber” (German No. 250690 on 12 Sep 1909). It began to solve the problem of the high cost of natural rubber as the need increased in the motor transportage age. Hofman had pursued the lead revealed by Carl Dietrich Harries who in 1905 had broken down natural rubber using ozone to reveal that it was formed from long chains in which many hundreds of isoprene molecules are bonded together. Hofman also studied the polymerization of butadiene and 2,3-dimethyl butadiene.
01 Nov 1956 obesity hypoventilation syndrome	science	obesity hypoventilation syndrome (medicine) The classic definition of obesity hypoventilation syndrome is published.
10 Nov 1956 Henry Luke Bolley	science	death Henry Luke Bolley Henry Luke Bolley (born 1865), plant pathologist.
11 Nov 1956 Convair B-58	science	Convair B-58 (technology) First flight of Convair B-58, the first supersonic jet bomber capable of Mach 2 flight, designed by Robert H. Widmer.
30 Nov 1956 First U.S. Regionally Televised Videotaped Broadcast	science	First U.S. Regionally Televised Videotaped Broadcast In 1956, CBS became the first-ever network to broadcast from videotape. It was a rebroadcast to the West Coast of the 15-minute Douglas Edwards and the News program. It was recorded earlier on 2-inch tape with an Ampex Mark IV machine. NBC made the first nationally televised videotaped broadcast on 21 Jan 1957, promptly replaying President Dwight D. Eisenhower's oath of office for his second term inauguration. The videotape recorder invented by Ray Dolby was ready in Feb 1956 when Ampex had a successful in-house demonstration. After it was introduced at the annual CBS affiliates meeting in Chicago on 14 Apr 1956, taped programming quickly became the normal method in broadcasting
01 Dec 1956 Martin Gardner	science	Martin Gardner (mathematics) Martin Gardner begins his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.

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