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| 1950 |
| | | In response to the Soviet atom bomb, President Truman announces a crash programme to develop a hydrogen bomb | |
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| 1950 |
| | | A prehistoric victim of strangling is found in Tollund Moss in Denmark, with part of the noose still round his neck | |
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| 1950 |
| | | The Medical Research Council in Britain produces a report, by Austin Hill and Richard Doll, linking smoking and lung cancer | |
|  | Tobacco and the doctor's opinion
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1951 |
| | | Syntex, a small chemical company in Mexico City, develops the first oral contraceptive | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The first hydrogen bomb is successfully tested by the US at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands | |
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| 1952 |
| | | X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, working at King's College in London, photographs DNA | |
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| 1952 |
| | | British scholar Michael Ventris deciphers Linear B, the script of Mycenae, proving it to be an early form of Greek | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US microbiologist Jonas Salk announces the discovery of an effective vaccine against polio | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Alfred Charles Kinsey completes his study of human sexuality with the publication of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female | |
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| 1953 |
| | | The first Soviet hydrogen bomb is successfully tested at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan | |
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