Editing 1953 in science (section)

==Paleontology==
* 20 November – Authorities at the [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]] in London announce that the [[human skull|skull]] of [[Piltdown Man]] (allegedly an [[early human]] discovered in [[1912 in science|1912]]) is a hoax.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Solution of the Piltdown Problem|author1=Weiner, J. S.|author2-link=Kenneth Oakley|author2=Oakley, K. P.|author3-link=Wilfrid Le Gros Clark|author3=Le Gros Clark, W. E.|journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Series|volume=2|issue=3|pages=141–6|date=1953-11-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Piltdown Man forgery|newspaper=[[The Times]]|location=London|date=1953-11-21|page=6}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,823171,00.html |title=End as a Man |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=1953-11-30 |access-date=2010-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030234043/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C823171%2C00.html |archive-date=2010-10-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=978-0-14-102715-9|year=2006}}</ref>