The year 1952 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Archaeology

• June 5 - Remains of a Viking ship found near Boston

Biology

• August 1: Around 9 o'clock AM, the San Benedicto Rock Wren goes extinct as its island home is smothered in a massive volcanic eruption.

Medicine

• February 6 - In the United States, a mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient.

Physics

• November 1 - Nuclear testing: Operation Ivy - The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["m" for megaton], at Eniwetok island in the Bikini Atoll located in the Pacific Ocean.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell
  • Chemistry - Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge
  • Medicine - Selman Abraham Waksman

Births

Deaths

• November 2 - Chaim Weizmann (b. 1874), chemist, first President of Israel.

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