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1956
Number of chromosomes of humans 46, Tijo and Lavan
1956 Storage Rings, Gerard K. O'Neill
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16 February 1956, Death of Meghnad N. Saha near New Delhi, India,
17 March 1956 Death of Henry Frederick Baker
11 May 1956, Death of Walter Sydney Adams in Pasadena, California
17 November 1956 Death of John Evershed in Ewhurst, Surrey, England
1956 Death of Meghnad Saha
1956 Death of Frederick Soddy
1956 Death of Edmund Taylor Whittaker
1956 Death of Robert Julius Trumpler
Nobel Prize
Physics to William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Chemistry to Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
Physiology or Medicine to André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
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