1935 in science
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The year 1935 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Opening of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
[edit] Chemistry
- Eastman Kodak first market Kodachrome subtractive color reversal film as 16 mm movie film.[1][2] It was invented by two professional musicians, Leopold Godowsky, Jr. and Leopold Mannes.[3][4][5]
[edit] Geology
- Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg develop the Richter magnitude scale for quantifying earthquakes.
[edit] History of science
- American virologist Hans Zisser publishes Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which... deals with the life history of typhus fever.[6]
[edit] Mathematics
- April 19 - Alonzo Church presents his paper "An unsolvable problem of elementary number theory", introducing his theorem on the Entscheidungsproblem, to the American Mathematical Society.[7]
- George Pólya develops counting techniques for graphs as algebra.[8]
- George K. Zipf proposes Zipf's law on probability distribution.[9]
[edit] Pharmacology
- January 2 - IG Farben are granted a patent in Germany for the medical application of the first sulfonamide prodrug, Sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730; marketed as Prontosil). In February, Gerhard Domagk and others publish (in Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift) the first clinical results on its properties as an antibiotic, the first commercially available; and in November a team directed by Ernest Fourneau at the Pasteur Institute identify sulfanilamide as the active component.[10]
[edit] Physics
- January 8 - A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.
- February 26 - Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins first demonstrate the use of radar to detect aircraft, near Daventry in England.[11]
- Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen publish a paper arguing that quantum mechanics is not a complete physical theory (the EPR paradox).[12] Discussion of this introduces the 'Schrödinger's cat' thought experiment.[13]
- Jacques Yvon introduces S-particle distribution functions in classical statistical mechanics;[14] they will later be included in the BBGKY hierarchy.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- February 15 - Roger B. Chaffee (died 1967), astronaut.
- June 25 - Charles Sheffield (died 2002), science fiction author and physicist.
- August 3 - Georgi Shonin (died 1997), cosmonaut.
- September 11 - Gherman Titov (died 2000), cosmonaut.
- November 11 - Magdi Yacoub, cardiothoracic surgeon.
[edit] Deaths
- March 12 - Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin (born 1858), physicist.
- July 3 - André Citroën (born 1878), automobile manufacturer.
- December 4 - Charles Richet (born 1850), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
- November 6 - Henry Fairfield Osborn (born 1857), paleontologist.
- Agnes Pockels (born 1862), chemist.
[edit] References
- ^ "Color Movies Easy To Make With Aid Of New Film". Popular Mechanics. June 1935. http://books.google.com/books?id=uN4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA804&dq=Popular+Science+1933+plane+%22Popular+Mechanics%22&hl=en&ei=ajQdTvrsPKbksQKlm8m7CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q&f=true.
- ^ Wadley, Carma (1999-06-25). "Range of Color: Kodachrome Basin Lives up to Name it Got by Accident". Deseret News. http://www.webcitation.org/64Azav2JG. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
- ^ Tomsho, Robert (2009-06-23). "Kodak to Take Kodachrome Away". The Wall Street Journal: p. B6. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124567093975236801.html. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
- ^ "Leopold Godowsky, Jr.". Invent.org. http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/233.html. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
- ^ "Leopold Mannes". Invent.org. http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/223.html. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
- ^ Helmenstine, Anne Marie (2011-09-03). "This Day in Science History - September 4 - Hans Zinsser". About.com. http://chemistry.about.com/b/2011/09/03/this-day-in-science-history-september-4-hans-zinsser.htm. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ American Journal of Mathematics 58 (1935) pp. 345–363.
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Zipf, George K. (1935). The Psychobiology of Language. Houghton-Mifflin.
- ^ Lesch, J. E. (2007). The first miracle drugs: how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 82–86. ISBN 978-0-19-518775-5.
- ^ "Passive Covert Radar - Watson-Watt's Daventry Experiment Revisited". IET. http://tv.theiet.org/technology/communications/219.cfm. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
- ^ "Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?"
- ^ Schrödinger, Erwin (November 1935). "Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik". Naturwissenschaften.
- ^ Yvon, J. (1935). Theorie Statistique des Fluides et l'Equation et l'Equation d'Etat. Actes scientifique et industrie, 203. Paris: Hermann.
