• The year 1956 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. March – Denham Harman proposes the free-radical theory of aging...
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    The 1956 United States presidential election was the 43rd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1956. Incumbent Republican...
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  • The year 1956 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. K. A. Applegate Gillian Bradshaw Simon Brown Aleksandr Bushkov Jack Campbell Storm...
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    1956 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1956. 1956 (MCMLVI) was...
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    Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science...
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    The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 4 November 1956; Hungarian: 1956-os forradalom), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted...
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    Satryo Brodjonegoro (category 1956 births)
    Brodjonegoro (born 5 January 1956) is an Indonesian academic and politician serving as minister of higher education, science, and technology since 2024...
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  • is an overview of 1956 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The top ten 1956 released films by...
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  • Administrative Science Quarterly, an academic journal established in 1956 Journal of Administrative Sciences, an academic journal of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University...
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    Kurgan hypothesis (category 1956 in science)
    revealing a fuller picture of prehistoric Europe. When it was first proposed in 1956, in The Prehistory of Eastern Europe, Part 1, Gimbutas's contribution to...
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  • in psychology. It was written by the cognitive psychologist George A. Miller of Harvard University's Department of Psychology and published in 1956 in...
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    Robby the Robot (category Film characters introduced in 1956)
    character and science fiction icon who first appeared in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet. He made a number of subsequent appearances in science fiction films...
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    rights. Although first proposed in 1956, the term "computer science" appears in a 1959 article in Communications of the ACM, in which Louis Fein argues for...
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    Science Fiction Adventures was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1956 to 1958 by Irwin Stein's Royal Publications as a companion...
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    Wu experiment (category 1956 in science)
    particle and nuclear physics experiment conducted in 1956 by the Chinese American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu in collaboration with the Low Temperature Group...
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    on November 8, 1956, by Belgian astronomers Sylvain Arend and Georges Roland on photographic plates. As the eighth comet found in 1956, it was named Arend–Roland...
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  • The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1956 is a 1956 anthology of science fiction short stories edited by T. E. Dikty. The stories had originally...
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  • Double Star (category 1956 science fiction novels)
    is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first serialized in Astounding Science Fiction (February, March, and April 1956) and...
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    Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science-fiction horror film produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy...
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    This is a list of notable science-fiction authors, in alphabetical order: Contents Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also External...
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    students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally known as the Christian Science church. It was founded in 1879 in New England by Mary...
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  • The Shrinking Man (category 1956 science fiction novels)
    The Shrinking Man is a science fiction novel by American writer Richard Matheson, published in 1956. It has been adapted into a motion picture twice, called...
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    of Hell". "Naked Gun (1956) - Once Upon a Time in a Western". "Showdown at Abilene". Weaver, Tom (2006). Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie...
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    Science and technology in the United States has a long history, producing many important figures and developments in the field. The United States of America...
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    in many of his films over the next ten years, including Apache Woman (1955), Day the World Ended (1955), Gunslinger (1956), The Oklahoma Woman (1956)...
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    1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 History of science fiction films Winner of a Retroactive Hugo Award in 2001. Winner of a Golden Globe...
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  • Wetzcon 1956, held on 14–15 January 1956, was the first science fiction convention held in Germany. Held in Wetzlar, it was organized by German science fiction...
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    worldwide popularity in the 1950s. Kaiju and tokusatsu films, notably Warning from Space (1956), sparked Stanley Kubrick's interest in science fiction films...
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  • The City and the Stars (category 1956 science fiction novels)
    The City and the Stars is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1956. This novel is a complete rewrite of Clarke's...
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    editorial presence until Graham DuShane became editor in 1956. In 1958, under DuShane's leadership, Science absorbed The Scientific Monthly, thus increasing...
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