Overview of the events of 1938 in science
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
Awards
Births
January 2
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
July 2 – C. Kumar N. Patel , Indian electrical engineer
July 11 – Anthony Sebastian, American physician-scientist, recipient of the Belding H. Scribner Award 2002
July 19 – Jayant Narlikar , Indian astrophysicist
September 3 – Ryōji Noyori , Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate
September 26 – Alan Andrew Watson , Scottish astrophysicist
October 4 – Kurt Wüthrich , Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
December 23 – Bob Kahn , American Internet pioneer
Deaths
References
^ Ellis, Richard (2004). No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species . New York: Harper Perennial. pp. 311–312. ISBN 0-06-055804-0 .
^ Bawden, F. C.; Pirie, N. W. (1938). "Crystalline Preparations of Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus" . British Journal of Experimental Pathology . 19 : 251. PMC 2065153 .
^ 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 . Trossarelli, L. (2010). "The history of nylon" . Club Alpino Italiano, Centro Studi Materiali e Tecniche. Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2012-02-28 .
^ Hofmann, Albert (1980). LSD — My Problem Child . McGraw–Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-029325-0 .
^ Talk given by Horst Zuse to the Computer Conservation Society at the Science Museum (London) on 18 November 2010.
^ Benford, Frank (1938). "The Law of Anomalous Numbers". Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 78 (4): 551–572. JSTOR 984802 .
^ Turing, A. M. (1939). "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals" (PDF) . Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society . Series 2. 45 (1): 161–228. doi :10.1112/plms/s2-45.1.161 . Retrieved 2013-02-05 .
^ "Turing's Princeton Dissertation" . Turing Centennial Celebration . Princeton University. 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-05 .
^ Pearl, R. (1938). "Tobacco Smoking and Longevity". Science . 87 (2253): 216–217. Bibcode :1938Sci....87..216P . doi :10.1126/science.87.2253.216 . PMID 17813231 .
^ Cordry, Harold V. (2001). Tobacco: a reference handbook . Contemporary world issues. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0874369670 .
^ Gross, Robert; Hubbard, John (1939). "Surgical Ligation of a Patent Ductus Arteriosus". Journal of the American Medical Association . 112 (8): 729. doi :10.1001/jama.1939.02800080049011 . ISSN 0002-9955 .
^ Andersen, Dorothy Hansine (1938). "Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas and its relation to celiac disease: a clinical and pathological study". American Journal of Diseases of Children . 56 (2): 344–399. doi :10.1001/archpedi.1938.01980140114013 .
^ Asperger, H. (1938). "The psychically abnormal child". Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift (in German). 51 : 1314–7.
^ Turner, H. H. (1938). "A syndrome of infantilism, congenital webbed neck and cubitus valgus". Endocrinology . 23 (5): 566–74. doi :10.1210/endo-23-5-566 . CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link )
^ 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. Bibcode :1938JOSA...28..215I . doi :10.1364/JOSA.28.000215 . Retrieved 2011-09-23 .
^ Rabi, I.I.; Zacharias, J.R.; Millman, S.; Kusch, P. (1938). "A New Method of Measuring Nuclear Magnetic Moment". Physical Review . 53 (4): 318–327. Bibcode :1938PhRv...53..318R . doi :10.1103/PhysRev.53.318 .
^ Vlasov, A. A. (1938). "On Vibration Properties of an Electron Gas" . Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics (in Russian). 8 (3): 444–70. Retrieved 2011-09-23 .