1926 in science

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The year 1926 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy and space exploration

March 16 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

American microbiologist Selman Waksman publishes Enzymes.
The Quarterly Review of Biology is established by Raymond Pearl in the United States.

Waldo Semon and the B.F. Goodrich Company develop a method of plasticizing polyvinyl chloride, giving it commercial potential.
Phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust) is first synthesized.

Vladimir Vernadsky popularises the concept of the biosphere in a book (in Russian) of this title.

First vaccine for Pertussis.
American biogerontologist Raymond Pearl publishes his book Alcohol and Longevity^[5] demonstrating that drinking alcohol in moderation is associated with greater longevity than either abstaining or drinking heavily.^[6]

February – Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda publish the first description of the Yagi-Uda antenna.
June 28 – A patent for an electric percussion fuse for explosive projectiles, invented by Herbert Rühlemann, is filed in Germany.
July
- Alan A. Griffith publishes An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design, proposing an airfoil shape for turbine blades.^[7]^[8]
- Carl Zeiss, Jena, open a planetarium housed in a geodesic dome designed by Walther Bauersfeld.^[9]
November 23 – The aerosol spray can is patented by Erik Rotheim, a Norwegian chemical engineer.^[10]
Ulster-born engineer Harry Ferguson is granted a British patent for his 'Duplex' hitch linking tractor and plough.

January 11 – Lev Dyomin (died 1998), Soviet Russian cosmonaut.
January 29 – Abdus Salam (died 1996), Punjabi theoretical physicist.
February – David Medved (died 2009), American physicist.
April 3 – Gus Grissom (died 1967), American astronaut.
May 8 – David Attenborough, English broadcaster and naturalist.
July 27 – W. David Kingery (died 2000), American materials scientist specializing in ceramic materials.
September 4 – George William Gray (died 2013), Scottish chemist, discoverer of stable liquid crystal materials leading to the development of liquid crystal displays.
October 2 – Michio Suzuki (died 1998), Japanese mathematician.
October 12 – Ruth L. Kirschstein (died 2009), American pathologist and science administrator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
October 31 – Narinder Singh Kapany, Punjabi-born physicist.
Neena Schwartz, American endocrinologist.

^ Borůvka, Otakar (1926). "O jistém problému minimálním [About a certain minimal problem]". Práce mor. přírodověd. spol. v Brně III (in Czech and German). 3: 37–58.
^ Borůvka, Otakar (1926). "Příspěvek k řešení otázky ekonomické stavby elektrovodních sítí [Contribution to the solution of a problem of economical construction of electrical networks]". Elektronický Obzor (in Czech). 15: 153–4.
^ Nešetřil, Jaroslav; Milková, Eva; Nešetřilová, Helena (2001). "Otakar Borůvka on minimum spanning tree problem: translation of both the 1926 papers, comments, history". Discrete Mathematics. 233 (1–3): 3–36. doi:10.1016/S0012-365X(00)00224-7. MR 1825599.
^ "ekonomicke stavby". www.domy-drevostavby-na-klic.cz. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
^ Pearl, Raymond (1926). Alcohol and Longevity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-405-13615-3.
^ Boyle, Peter; Boffetta, Paolo; Lowenfels, Albert B.; Burns, Harry; Brawley, Otis; Zatonski, Witold; Rehm, Jürgen (2013). Alcohol: Science, Policy and Public Health. Oxford University Press. p. 14. ISBN 9780199655786.
^ Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Report no. H 1111.
^ Rubbra, A. A. (1964). "Alan Arnold Griffith. 1893-1963". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 10: 117–136. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1964.0008. JSTOR 769315.
^ Photographs of the Zeiss Optical Company's first geodesic dome.
^ Bellis, Mary. "The History of Aerosol Spray Cans". About.com. Retrieved 2011-06-27.