1927 in science
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The year 1927 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Mathematics
- Publication of the 2nd edition of Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, one of the most important and seminal works in mathematical logic and philosophy.
[edit] Medicine
- António Egas Moniz develops cerebral angiography.[1]
[edit] Physics
- April - Abbé Georges Lemaître publishes in the Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles "Un Univers homogène de masse constante et de rayon croissant rendant compte de la vitesse radiale des nébuleuses extra-galactiques"[2] proposing the theory of the expansion of the Universe, deriving what will become known as Hubble's law, making the first estimation of what will become called the Hubble constant,[3][4][5][6] and proposing what becomes known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, which he calls his 'hypothesis of the primeval atom'.[7][8]
- October - The fifth Solvay Conference meets in Brussels to discuss the newly-formulated quantum mechanics. Albert Einstein attacks the theories of Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.
[edit] Technology
- September 7 - Philo Farnsworth's electronic image dissector television camera tube transmits its first image at his laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 29 - Lewis Urry (died 2004), Canadian inventor of the long-lasting alkaline battery.
- March 16 - Vladimir Komarov (died 1967), Russian cosmonaut on Soyuz 1.
- April 26 - Anne McLaren (died 2007), English developmental biologist.
- September 4 - John McCarthy (died 2011), American computer scientist and cognitive scientist.
- November 20 - Kikuo Takano (died 2006), Japanese poet and mathematician.
[edit] Deaths
- January 19 - Carl Gräbe (born 1841), German chemist.
- February 9 - Charles Walcott (born 1850), American paleontologist.
- May 2 - Ernest Starling (born 1866), English physiologist.
- August 13 - James Oliver Curwood (born 1887), American novelist and conservationist.
- September 14 - Julian Sochocki (born 1842), Polish-born mathematician.
- October 2 - Svante Arrhenius (born 1859), Swedish winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- December 24 - Vladimir Bekhterev (died 1857), Russian psychologist.
[edit] References
- ^ "World of Scientific Discovery on Antonio Egas Moniz". BookRags. http://www.bookrags.com/biography/antonio-egas-moniz-wsd/. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ^ Lemaître, G. (April 1927). "Un Univers homogène de masse constante et de rayon croissant rendant compte de la vitesse radiale des nébuleuses extra-galactiques" (in French). Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 47: 49–59. Bibcode 1927ASSB...47...49L. http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1927ASSB...47...49L&defaultprint=YES&filetype=.pdf. ("A Homogeneous Universe of Constant Mass and Growing Radius Accounting for the Radial Velocity of Extra-galactic Nebulæ".)
- ^ van den Bergh, Sidney (2011-06-06). "The Curious Case of Lemaitre's Equation No. 24". arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1195. arXiv:1106.1195v1 [physics.hist-ph].
- ^ Block, David L. (2011-06-20). "A Hubble Eclipse: Lemaitre and Censorship". arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3928. arXiv:1106.3928v2 [physics.hist-ph].
- ^ Reich, Eugenie Samuel (2011-06-27). "Edwin Hubble in translation trouble". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2011.385. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110627/full/news.2011.385.html. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ^ Livio, Mario (2011-11-10). "Lost in translation: Mystery of the missing text solved". Nature 479 (7372): 171–3. doi:10.1038/479171a. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7372/full/479171a.html. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ^ "Big bang theory is introduced, 1927". People and Discoveries. PBS. 1998. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dp27bi.html. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ^ "1927: Lemaître - Big Bang". Chemsoc Timeline. Royal Society of Chemistry. 2004. http://www.chemsoc.org/timeline/pages/1927.html. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
