Editing 1954 in science (section)

==Chemistry==
* Publication of the first analysis of the three-dimensional molecular structure of [[Vitamin B12|vitamin B<sub>12</sub>]] by a group including [[Dorothy Hodgkin]], and utilising computer analysis provided by [[Kenneth Nyitray Trueblood]].<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Brink, Clara |author2=Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot |author3=Lindsey, June|authorlink3=June Lindsey |author4=Pickworth, Jenny |author5=Robertson, John H. |author6=White, John G. |date=December 25, 1954|title=X-ray Crystallographic Evidence on the Structure of Vitamin B<sub>12</sub>|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|volume=174|pages=1169–117|doi=10.1038/1741169a0|issue=4443|bibcode = 1954Natur.174.1169B|pmid=13223773|s2cid=4207158 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Jenny P.|last=Glusker|title=Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910–1994)|journal=[[Protein Science]]|year=1994|volume=3|issue=12|pages=2465–2469|doi=10.1002/pro.5560031233|pmid=7757003|pmc=2142778}}</ref>
* [[Strychnine total synthesis]] is first achieved in the laboratory by [[Robert Burns Woodward]]'s team at Harvard.<ref>Nicolaou, K. C.; Sorensen, E. J. (1996). ''Classics in Total Synthesis: Targets, Strategies, Methods''. Wiley. {{ISBN|978-3-527-29231-8}}.</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Nicolaou, K. C.; Vourloumis, Dionisios; Winssinger, Nicolas; Baran, Phil S.|title=The Art and Science of Total Synthesis at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century|journal=[[Angewandte Chemie International Edition]]|year=2000|volume=39|issue=1|pages=44-122}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bonjoch|first1=Josep|last2=Sole|first2=Daniel|year=2000|title=Synthesis of Strychnine|journal=[[Chemical Reviews]]|volume=100|issue=9|pages=3455–3482|doi=10.1021/cr9902547|pmid=11777429}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Proudfoot|first=John R.|year=2013|title=Reaction Schemes Visualized in Network Form: The Syntheses of Strychnine as an Example|journal=Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling|volume=53|issue=5|pages=1035–1042|doi=10.1021/ci300556b|pmid=23597302}}</ref>
* The [[Wittig reaction]] is discovered by German chemist [[Georg Wittig]].