See also: 1950 in science, other events of 1951, 1952 in science and the list of years in science.
Awards Nobel Prizes Physics: John Douglas Cockcroft; Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton Chemistry: Edwin Mattison McMillan; Glenn Theodore Seaborg Medicine: Max Theiler Copley Medal: David Keilin Wollaston Medal for Geology: Olaf Holtedahl Births Deaths April 6 - Robert Broom, paleontologist (* 1866) April 22 - Horace Donisthorpe, entomologist, myrmecologist, coleopterist (* 1870)
