Editing 1954 in science (section)

==Physics==
* January 2 – [[Harold Hopkins (physicist)|Harold Hopkins]] and [[Narinder Singh Kapany]] at [[Imperial College London]] report achieving low-loss light transmission through a 75&nbsp;cm long [[optical fiber]] bundle.<ref>{{cite journal|first1=H. H.|last1=Hopkins|first2=N. S.|last2=Kapany|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|doi=10.1038/173039b0|volume=173|page=39|year=1954|title=A flexible fibrescope, using static scanning|issue=4392|bibcode=1954Natur.173...39H|s2cid=4275331}}</ref>
* March 1 – [[Castle Bravo]]: United States carries out a [[thermonuclear weapon]] test on [[Bikini Atoll]] in the Pacific Ocean.
* September 29 – [[CERN]] is founded by twelve European states.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/About/History54-en.html|title=1954: foundations for European science|publisher=CERN|year=2008|access-date=February 28, 2011}}</ref>
* First [[tokamak]] built, in the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite web|first=V.|last=Reshetov|url=http://www.vokrugsveta.ru/vs/article/429/|title=An ocean of energy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113224010/http://www.vokrugsveta.ru/vs/article/429/|date=2013-11-13|archive-date=2013-11-13|language=Russian}}</ref>