1932 in science
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The year 1932 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy and space sciences
- Estonian astronomer Ernst Öpik postulates that long-period comets originate in an orbiting cloud (the Öpik–Oort cloud) at the outermost edge of the Solar System.[1]
[edit] Biology
- Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane publishes The Causes of Evolution, unifying the findings of Mendelian genetics with those of evolutionary science.
- Physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon develops and popularises the concept of homeostasis in his book The Wisdom of the Body.
[edit] Earth sciences
[edit] Mathematics
- Menger-Nöbeling theorem.
- John von Neumann makes foundational contributions to ergodic theory in a series of papers.[4][5][6]
- December - Marian Rejewski of the Polish Biuro Szyfrów applies pure mathematics – permutation group theory – to breaking the German armed forces' Enigma machine ciphers.[7][8]
[edit] Medicine
- January 5 - The pathology of Cushing's syndrome is first described by Harvey Cushing.[9][10]
- Jewish-American gastroenterologist Burrill Bernard Crohn and colleagues describe a series of patients with "regional ileitis", inflammation of the terminal ileum, the area most commonly affected by the condition which will become known as Crohn's disease.[11]
- Rudolph Schindler introduces the first semi-flexible gastroscope, in Germany.[12]
- Commencement of the 40-year Tuskegee syphilis experiment by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in poor African-American sharecroppers in Alabama without their informed consent.[13]
- First published use of the term Medical genetics, in an article by Madge Macklin.[14]
[edit] Pharmacology
- Albert Szent-Györgyi and Charles Glen King identify hexuronic acid as an anti-scorbutic.
- December 25 - IG Farben file a patent application in Germany for the medical application of the first sulfonamide drug, Sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730; which will be marketed as Prontosil), following Gerhard Domagk's laboratory demonstration of its properties as an antibiotic.[15]
[edit] Physics
- James Chadwick discovers the neutron.[16][17] Werner Heisenberg explains its symmetries by introducing the concept of isospin.[18]
- The positron is observed by Carl Anderson.[19]
- The Kennedy-Thorndike experiment shows that measured time as well as length are affected by motion, in accordance with the theory of special relativity.[20]
- John von Neumann rigorously establishes a mathematical framework for quantum mechanics in Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 16 - Dian Fossey (died 1985), American primatologist.
- April 26 - Michael Smith (died 2000), English-born biochemist, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- August 15 - Robert L. Forward (died 2002), American science fiction author and physicist.
- September 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov (died 2002), Russian cosmonaut.
- October 13 - John G. Thompson, American mathematician.
[edit] Deaths
- February 29 - George Claridge Druce (born 1850), English botanist.
- March 14 - George Eastman (born 1854), American photography pioneer.
- April 3 - Wilhelm Ostwald (born 1853), Baltic German chemist.
- April 20 - Giuseppe Peano (born 1858), Italian mathematician.
- June 21 - Marshall "Major" Taylor (born 1878), African American racing cyclist.
- July 9 - King Camp Gillette (born 1855), American inventor.
- July 22 - Reginald Fessenden (born 1866), Canadian American radio broadcasting pioneer.
- September 16 - Sir Ronald Ross (born 1857), British physiologist.
- November 12 - Sir Dugald Clerk (born 1854), Scottish-born mechanical engineer.
[edit] References
- ^ Öpik, E. (October 1932). "Note on Stellar Perturbations of Nearly Parabolic Orbits". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 67 (6): 169–183. doi:10.2307/20022899. JSTOR 20022899.
- ^ "Braggite". Mindat.org. http://www.mindat.org/min-751.html. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
- ^ "Braggite". Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineral Data Publishing. 2001-2005. http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/braggite.pdf. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
- ^ von Neumann, John (1932). "Proof of the Quasi-ergodic Hypothesis". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 18 (1): 70–82. Bibcode 1932PNAS...18...70N. doi:10.1073/pnas.18.1.70. PMC 1076162. PMID 16577432. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1076162.
- ^ von Neumann, John (1932). "Physical Applications of the Ergodic Hypothesis". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 18 (3): 263–266. Bibcode 1932PNAS...18..263N. doi:10.1073/pnas.18.3.263. JSTOR 86260. PMC 1076204. PMID 16587674. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1076204.
- ^ Halmos, Paul R. (1958). "Von Neumann on Measure and Ergodic Theory". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 64 (3: 2): 86–94. "if von Neumann had never done anything else, they would have been sufficient to guarantee him mathematical immortality."
- ^ Kahn, David (1996). The Codebreakers (2nd ed.). p. 974.
- ^ Kozaczuk, Władysław (1984). Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher was Broken, and how it was Read by the Allies in World War Two. Frederick, Md: University Publications of America. pp. 234–236. ISBN 978-0890935477.
- ^ Cushing, Harvey (1932). "The basophil adenomas of the pituitary body and their clinical manifestations (pituitary basophilism)". Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital 50: 137–95. PMC 2387613. PMID 19310569. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2387613. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
- ^ "Dr. Cushing Dead; Brain Surgeon, 70. A Pioneer Who Won Fame as Founder of New School of Neuro-Surgery. Discovered Malady Affecting Pituitary Gland. Was Noted Teacher and Author". New York Times. 8 October 1939. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30915F73C5A177A93CAA9178BD95F4D8385F9. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
- ^ Crohn, B. B.; Ginzburg, L.; Oppenheimer, G. D. (2000). "Regional ileitis: a pathologic and clinical entity, 1932". Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 67 (3): 263–8. PMID 10828911.
- ^ Schäfer, P. K.; Sauerbruch, T. (2004). "Rudolf Schindler (1888–1968) – 'Vater' der Gastroskopie". Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie 42 (6): 550–6. doi:10.1055/s-2004-813178. PMID 15190453. https://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-2004-813178.
- ^ "The Tuskegee Timeline". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2011-06-15. http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- ^ Harper, Peter S. (2008). A Short History of Medical Genetics. Oxford University Press. p. 281. ISBN 978-0-19-518750-2.
- ^ Lesch, J. E. (2007). "Prontosil". The first miracle drugs: how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 51–61. ISBN 978-0-19-518775-5.
- ^ Chadwick, J. (September 1932). "Possible Existence of a Neutron". Nature 129 (3252): 312. Bibcode 1932Natur.129Q.312C. doi:10.1038/129312a0. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v129/n3252/pdf/129312a0.pdf. Retrieved 2011-06-22.
- ^ Chadwick, J. (1932). "The Existence of the Neutron". Proceedings of the Royal Society A136: 692–708.
- ^ Heisenberg, W. (1932). "Über den Bau der Atomkerne". Zeitschrift für Physik 77: 1–11. Bibcode 1932ZPhy...77....1H. doi:10.1007/BF01342433.
- ^ Anderson, Carl D. (1932). "The Apparent Existence of Easily Deflectable Positives". Science 76 (1967): 238–9. Bibcode 1932Sci....76..238A. doi:10.1126/science.76.1967.238. JSTOR 1658257. PMID 17731542.
- ^ Kennedy, Roy J.; Thorndike, Edward M. (1932). "Experimental Establishment of the Relativity of Time". Physical Review 42 (3): 400–418. Bibcode 1932PhRv...42..400K. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.42.400.
