Editing 1950s (section)

===Scientists and engineers===

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* [[Virginia Apgar]]
* [[Mohamed Atalla]]
* [[John Bardeen]]
* [[Walter Brattain]]
* [[Christopher Cockerell]]
* [[Noam Chomsky]]
* [[Jay Forrester]]
* [[Rosalind Franklin]]
* Elmer Friedrich<ref>{{cite web | url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/lighting/bios/frid.htm | title=Lighting a Revolution: Elmer Fridrich }}</ref>
* [[Paul Erdos]]
* [[Peter Carl Goldmark|Peter Goldmark]]
* [[Grace Hopper]]
* [[Clarence Kelly Johnson|Kelly Johnson]]
* [[Dawon Kahng]]
* [[Jack Kilby]]
* [[Francis Kirk]]
* [[Yuri Knorozov]]
* [[Sergei Korolev]]
* [[Aurelio Lampredi]]
* [[Sergey Lebedev (scientist)|Sergei Lebedev]]
* [[Olga Ladyzhenskaya]]
* [[Allen Newell]]
* [[Georgios Papanikolaou|George Papanicolaou]]
* [[Linus Pauling]]
* [[Frederick Sanger]]
* [[Jonas Salk]]
* [[Emilio Segre]]
* [[William Shockley]]
* [[Kirill Shchelkin]]
* [[Joseph H. Simons|Joseph Simons]]
* [[Alexander Robertus Todd|Alexander Todd]]
* [[Victor Toma]]
* [[Alan Turing]]
* [[Charles Townes]]
* [[Rudolf Uhlenhaut]]
* [[Wernher von Braun]]
* [[James Watson]]
* [[Maurice Wilkins]]
* [[Chien-Shiung Wu]]
* [[Heinz Zemanek]]
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