1930 in science
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The year 1930 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy and space exploration
- February 18 - Pluto is discovered by Clyde Tombaugh.
- Bernhard Schmidt invents the Schmidt Camera.[1]
[edit] Atmospheric chemistry
- Sydney Chapman explains the ozone-oxygen cycle, the process by which ozone is continually regenerated in Earth's stratosphere.
[edit] Chemistry
[edit] History of science
- Soviet Orientalist Vasily Vasilievich Struve, with Boris Turaev, provides solutions to the problems in the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus.[3]
[edit] Mathematics
- Vojtěch Jarník first discovers 'Prim's algorithm'.
- Kazimierz Kuratowski characterizes his planar graph theorem.[4]
- Bartel van der Waerden publishes Moderne Algebra.[4]
[edit] Medicine
- November 25 - Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary in England, achieves the first recorded cure (of an eye infection) using penicillin.[5]
[edit] Zoology
- Israel Aharoni collects golden hamsters near Aleppo from which all modern domesticated specimens will be bred.[6]
[edit] Births
- January 13 - Harold Furth (died 2002), expert in plasma physics and nuclear fusion.
- May 11 - Edsger Dijkstra (died 2002), computer scientist.
- June 22 - Yuri Artyukhin (died 1998), cosmonaut.
- October 17 - Dr. Robert Atkins (died 2003), nutritionist.
- November 14 - Edward White (died 1967), astronaut.
[edit] Deaths
- January 19 - Frank P. Ramsey (born 1903), English mathematician.
- August 6 - Joseph Le Bel (born 1847), French chemist.
- August 15 - Florian Cajori (born 1859), Swiss-born American historian of mathematics.
- October 15 - E. H. "Chinese" Wilson (born 1876), English plant collector.
- September 1 - Peeter Põld (born 1878), Estonian politician and pedagogical scientist.
[edit] References
- ^ "Bernhard Schmidt". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on May 24, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080524175425/http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/history/schmidt.
- ^ Smith, John K. (1985). "The Ten-Year Invention: Neoprene and Du Pont Research, 1930–1939". Technology and Culture 26: 34–55. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3104528. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ Struve, Vasilij Vasil'evič; Turaev, Boris (1930). "Mathematischer Papyrus des Staatlichen Museums der Schönen Künste in Moskau". Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik; Abteilung A. 1. Berlin: Springer.
- ^ a b Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Wainwright, M.; Swan, H.T. (1986). "C.G. Paine and the earliest surviving clinical records of penicillin therapy". Medical History 30: 42–56. PMC 1139580. PMID 3511336. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1139580. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ "Israel Aharoni". Professor Paul's Lives of the Great Naturalists. http://www.ppne.co.uk/index.php?m=show&id=30551.[dead link]
