1936 in science

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The year 1936 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Chemistry

• February 4 - Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
• December 23 - The first nerve agent, Tabun, is discovered (accidentally) by a research team headed by Dr Gerhard Schrader of IG Farben in Germany.

Geology

• Inge Lehmann argues that the Earth's molten interior has a solid core.

Computer science

• May 28 - Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication.

Medicine

• António Egas Moniz publishes his first report of performing a prefrontal leukotomy on a human patient.

Technology

• June 26 - Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first fully controllable helicopter, makes its first flight.

Zoology

• September 7 - Death of the last recorded thylacine, in Hobart Zoo.

Awards

• Fields Prize in Mathematics (first award): Lars Ahlfors and Jesse Douglas
• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Victor Franz Hess, Carl David Anderson
  • Chemistry - Peter Debye
  • Medicine - Sir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi

Births

• January 10 - Robert Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer.
• December 22 - James Burke, English historian and populariser of science.

Deaths

• February 27 - Ivan Pavlov (born 1849), Russian physiologist.
• April 8 - Robert Bárány (born 1876), Nobel Prize winner in medicine.
• April 27 - Karl Pearson (born 1857), English mathematician.