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1954
28 October 1954 discovery of 2322 Kitt Peak
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19 January 1954 Death of Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza in Göttingen, Germany
28 January 1954 Death of Ernest-Benjamin Esclangon in Mison, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France,
17 November 1954 Death of Thaddeus Julian Banachiewicz in Cracow, Poland
28 November 1954 Death of Enrico Fermi
1954 Death of Vagn Walfrid Ekman
Fields Medal
Nobel Prize
Physics divided equally between: Max Born for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction and Walther Bothe for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith.
Chemistry to Linus Carl Pauling "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances"
Physiology or Medicine to John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"
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