Biology
- February 4 - Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union and Lysenkoist theories subjected to criticism.
- Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling name their concept of the molecular clock.
- The Parma wallaby, thought for around 70 years to be extinct, is rediscovered on Kawau Island (near Auckland).
- W. Keble Martin publishes The Concise British Flora in Colour.
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