1951 in science
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The year 1951 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

See also: 1950 in science, other events of 1951, 1952 in science and the list of years in science.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics: John Douglas Cockcroft; Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
  • Chemistry: Edwin Mattison McMillan; Glenn Theodore Seaborg
  • Medicine: Max Theiler
• Copley Medal: David Keilin
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Olaf Holtedahl

Births

Deaths

• April 6 - Robert Broom, paleontologist (* 1866)
• April 22 - Horace Donisthorpe, entomologist, myrmecologist, coleopterist (* 1870)

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