| 4723 Wolfgangmattig | October 11, 1937 | Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth | asteroid |
| Neptunium | 1940 | Edwin McMillan | chemical element |
| Gunkanmaki | 1941 | Ginza Kyubey | — |
| Plutonium | 1941 | Joseph W. Kennedy | chemical element |
| Radio proximity fuze | 1942 | James A. Van Allen | — |
| 3446 Combes | March 12, 1942 | Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth | asteroid |
| Treatise of Luís Fróis, S.J. (1585) on the contrast of the morals between Europe and Japan | 1946 | Josef Franz Schütte | literary work |
| Kaldo converter | 1948 | Bo Kalling | process |
| Katsukarē | 1948 | Ginza Swiss | — |
| 3938 Chapront | August 2, 1949 | Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth | asteroid |
| Chicken nugget | 1950 | Robert C. Baker | — |
| 3440 Stampfer | February 17, 1950 | Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth | asteroid |
| 2842 Unsöld | July 25, 1950 | Indiana Asteroid Program | asteroid |
| Moessner's theorem | 1951 | Alfred Moessner | theorem |
| 3383 Koyama | January 9, 1951 | Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth | asteroid |
| Palomar 6 | 1952 | George O. Abell | globular cluster |
| Aztahuacan fossils | 1953 | Arturo Romano Pacheco | Hominin fossil |
| 5567 Durisen | March 21, 1953 | Indiana Asteroid Program | asteroid |
| 3939 Huruhata | April 7, 1953 | Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth | asteroid |
| 7542 Johnpond | April 7, 1953 | Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth | asteroid |
| 5568 Mufson | October 14, 1953 | Indiana Asteroid Program | asteroid |
| 4911 Rosenzweig | October 16, 1953 | Indiana Asteroid Program | asteroid |
| 4912 Emilhaury | November 11, 1953 | Indiana Asteroid Program | asteroid |
| 3642 Frieden | December 4, 1953 | Herta Gessner | asteroid |
| 3959 Irwin | October 28, 1954 | Indiana Asteroid Program | asteroid |
| Antiproton | 1955 | Emilio G. Segrè | type of quantum particle |
| Sapporo ramen | 1955 | Morito Ōmiya | — |
| 5536 Honeycutt | August 23, 1955 | Indiana Asteroid Program | asteroid |
| 3371 Giacconi | September 14, 1955 | Indiana Asteroid Program | asteroid |
| 3447 Burckhalter | September 29, 1956 | Indiana Asteroid Program | asteroid |
| C/1957 U1 (Latyshev–Wild–Burnham) | October 16, 1957 | Paul Wild | non-periodic comet |
| Floyd–Warshall algorithm | 1959 | Bernard Roy | pathfinding algorithm |
| Ishango bone | 1960 | Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt | archaeological find |
| 10433 Ponsen | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 10434 Tinbergen | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 10436 Janwillempel | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 10649 VOC | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 10950 Albertjansen | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 10953 Gerdatschira | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 10959 Appennino | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 11241 Eckhout | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 12135 Terlingen | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 12141 Chushayashi | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 12142 Franklow | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 42403 Andraimon | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 5037 Habing | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 5194 Böttger | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 5340 Burton | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 5529 Perry | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 5694 Berényi | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 7687 Matthias | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 7688 Lothar | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 9678 van der Meer | September 24, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 10244 Thüringer Wald | September 26, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 10962 Sonnenborgh | October 17, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 5296 Friedrich | October 17, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 7805 Moons | October 17, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 7971 Meckbach | October 17, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 10243 Hohe Meissner | October 22, 1960 | Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | asteroid |
| 4724 Brocken | January 18, 1961 | Cuno Hoffmeister | asteroid |