1938 in science explained
The year 1938 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Computer science
History of science
Mathematics
Medicine
Physics
Technology
Publications
- Ștefan Odobleja begins publication of his Psychologie consonantiste in Paris, seen in Romania as originating the study of cybernetics.
Awards
Births
- January 2
- Lynn Conway, American computer engineer
- Farouk El-Baz, Egyptian-American space scientist
- Dana Ulery, American computer scientist
- January 10 – Donald Knuth, American computer scientist and mathematician
- January 28 – Tomas Lindahl, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- March 5 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist (d. 2011)
- March 7 – David Baltimore, American biologist, university administrator and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- March 31 – Dennis H. Klatt, American pioneer of speech synthesis (d. 1988)
- April 3 – John Darley, American social psychologist
- April 25 – Roger Boisjoly, American rocket engineer (d. 2012)
- May 11 – Fritz-Albert Popp, German biophysicist
- May 16 – Ivan Sutherland, American computer scientist and Turing Award winner
- June 29 – David Barker, English epidemiologist (d. 2013)
- July 2 – C. Kumar N. Patel, Indian electrical engineer
- July 19 – Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
- September 3 – Ryōji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate
- September 17 – Alec Broers, Baron Broers, British electrical engineer
- September 26 – Alan Andrew Watson, Scottish astrophysicist
- September 30 – Alfred Cuschieri, Malta-born laparoscopic surgeon
- October 4 – Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 22 – Michael Berridge, Rhodesian-born British physiologist and biochemist (d. 2020)
- November 7 – Edgardo Gomez, Filipino biologist (d. 2019)
- December 7 – George Hockham, English electrical engineer (d. 2013)
- December 23 – Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
Deaths
Notes and References
- Book: Ellis, Richard. Richard Ellis (biologist)
. Richard Ellis (biologist). No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species. Harper Perennial. 2004. New York. 311–312. 0-06-055804-0. registration.
- Bawden. F. C.. Pirie. N. W.. 1938. Crystalline Preparations of Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus. 2065153. British Journal of Experimental Pathology. 19. 251.
- US Patent 2,130,523 Linear polyamides suitable for spinning into strong pliable fibers; US Patent 2,130,947 Diamine dicarboxylic acid salt and US Patent 2,130,948 Synthetic fibers. Web site: The history of nylon . L. . Trossarelli . Club Alpino Italiano, Centro Studi Materiali e Tecniche . 2010 . 2012-02-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120425044410/http://www.caimateriali.org/index.php?id=32 . 2012-04-25 . live .
- Book: Hofmann, Albert. LSD — My Problem Child. McGraw–Hill. 1980. 978-0-07-029325-0.
- Talk given by Horst Zuse to the Computer Conservation Society at the Science Museum (London) on 18 November 2010.
- Frank. Benford. The Law of Anomalous Numbers. Proc. Am. Philos. Soc.. 78. 4. 1938. 551–572. 984802.
- A. M.. Turing. Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals. . Series 2. 45. 1. 1939. 161–228. 10.1112/plms/s2-45.1.161. 21.11116/0000-0001-91CE-3. free.
- Web site: Turing's Princeton Dissertation. Turing Centennial Celebration. 2012. Princeton University. 2013-02-05.
- Pearl. R.. Tobacco Smoking and Longevity. 10.1126/science.87.2253.216. Science. 87. 2253. 216–217. 1938. 17813231. 1938Sci....87..216P.
- Book: Cordry, Harold V.. ABC-CLIO. 978-0874369670. Tobacco: a reference handbook. registration. Santa Barbara, California. Contemporary world issues. 2001.
- Gross. Robert. Hubbard. John. 1939. Surgical Ligation of a Patent Ductus Arteriosus. Journal of the American Medical Association. 112. 8. 729. 10.1001/jama.1939.02800080049011. 0002-9955.
- Andersen. Dorothy Hansine. Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas and its relation to celiac disease: a clinical and pathological study. American Journal of Diseases of Children. 1938. 56. 2. 344–399. 10.1001/archpedi.1938.01980140114013.
- Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift. 1938. 51. 1314–7. The psychically abnormal child. Asperger. H.. German.
- Book: Reynolds, L. A.. Early Development of Total Hip Replacement. Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. 2006. 978-085484-111-0.
- Turner, H. H.. 1938. A syndrome of infantilism, congenital webbed neck and cubitus valgus. Endocrinology. 23. 5. 566–74. 10.1210/endo-23-5-566.
- Ives. Herbert E.. Stilwell, G. R.. 1938. An Experimental Study of the Rate of a Moving Atomic Clock. Journal of the Optical Society of America. 28. 7. 215–19. 1938JOSA...28..215I. 2011-09-23. 10.1364/JOSA.28.000215.
- Rabi, I.I. . Zacharias, J.R. . Millman, S. . Kusch, P. . A New Method of Measuring Nuclear Magnetic Moment. Physical Review. 53. 1938. 10.1103/PhysRev.53.318. 4. 1938PhRv...53..318R. 318–327. free.
- A. A.. Vlasov. On Vibration Properties of an Electron Gas. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics. 8. 444–70. 1938. Russian. 3. 2011-09-23.