1952 in science

Events

January 25th: General Motors lance the first car equipped with headlights with two intensities.
April 22nd: Explosion with the Nevada to 900 m of the altitude of most powerful the atomic bomb ever built, retransmis on line by television.
July 3rd, France: Inauguration of a nuclear particle accelerator in the center of study of Saclay.
October 3rd: Explosion of the first British atomic bomb with Montebello in Australia.
October 20th - December 23rd: Started from Las Palmas (the Canaries), Alain Bombard arrives at the Barbados in an inflatable dinghy, not having carried neither vivres nor water.

October 31st /1er November (local time): Explosion of the first bends with hydrogen American on one of the islands of the archipelago Marshall.

the first tube of Geiger to low tension is developed in Canada to facilitate the search for Uranium in the mines.
First radio of pocket (Transistor), first Tape recorder, invention of the Code-bars.
First commercial flight enters Canada and Europe.
Creation of CERN (European Council for the nuclear research) to Meyrin, canton of Swiss Geneva in .

April 6th: The first successful ablation of the Pituitary gland by the Swedes Herbert Olivecrona and Rolf Luft.
March 18th: First artificial lens placed to a patient reached of cataract by Warren Snyder Reese with Philadelphia.
October 9th: The first transplantation of a cardiac valvule plastic at the medical center of the Georgetown university with Washington.
December 25th first Clerc's Office of the Kidney of the professor Jean Hamburger on Marius Fox at the Necker hospital of Paris. The patient survives until the January 27th 1953.
December 29th: Marketing of the first apparatus transistorized for deaf people.

First contraceptive Pill.
the American microbiologist Jonas Edward Salk develops the first Vaccin against the Poliomyélite.

: Felix Bloch, Edward Millets Purcell (measurement of nuclear magnetism)
Chemistry: John Archer To carry Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge (British) (chromophotography).
Physiology or medicine: Selman Abraham Waksman (American born in Ukraine) (Streptomycine).

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