1955 in science
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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.
Awards
Births
Deaths
- March 11 - Alexander Fleming (b. 1881), scientist.
- April 18 - Albert Einstein (b. 1879), scientist and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics.
- Oswald Avery (b. 1877), bacteriologist.