1930 in science explained
The year 1930 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
Atmospheric sciences
Botany
Chemistry
History of science
Mathematics
Medicine
Physics
Technology
Zoology
Awards
Births
- January 9 – Jacob T. Schwartz (died 2009), American mathematician and professor of computer science at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
- January 13 – Harold Furth (died 2002), Austrian-born expert in plasma physics and nuclear fusion.
- January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut, lunar module pilot on Apollo 11.
- February 7 – Ikutaro Kakehashi (died 2017), Japanese electronic music engineer.
- February 23 – Goro Shimura (died 2019), Japanese mathematician.
- February 28 – Leon Cooper, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner.
- March 15 – Martin Karplus, Austrian-born theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner.
- April 9 – Nathaniel Branden (died 2014), Canadian American psychotherapist.
- April 16 – Louis Herman (died 2016), American marine biologist, investigator in animal communication.
- April 20 – Gordon Hamilton Fairley (killed 1975), British oncologist.
- May 9 – Susan Leeman, American neuroendocrinologist.
- May 11 – Edsger W. Dijkstra (died 2002), Dutch computer scientist.
- May 28 – Frank Drake (died 2022), American radio astronomer, pioneer in SETI
- June 2 – Pete Conrad (died 1999), American astronaut.
- June 22 – Yury Artyukhin (died 1998), Soviet Russian cosmonaut.
- June 28 – William C. Campbell, Irish-born parasitologist and Nobel Prize winner.
- August 5 – Neil Armstrong (died 2012), American astronaut, first person to walk on the Moon.
- August 7 – Joe Farman (died 2013), British geophysicist working for the British Antarctic Survey.
- September 7 – Yuan Longping (died 2021), Chinese agronomist.
- September 12 – Akira Suzuki, Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize winner.
- September 24 – John Young (died 2018), American astronaut.
- October 10 – Yves Chauvin (died 2015), Belgian-born chemist and Nobel Prize winner.
- October 17 – Robert Atkins (died 2003), American nutritionist.
- October 27 – Gladys West, née Gladys Mae Brown, African American mathematician.
- October 31 – Michael Collins (died 2021), American astronaut.
- November 11 – Mildred Dresselhaus, née Spiewak (died 2017), American nanotechnologist.
- November 14 – Ed White (died in training accident 1967), American astronaut.[11]
- December 17 – Dorothy Rowe, née Conn (died 2019), Australian psychologist.
- December 30
Deaths
Notes and References
- Web site: Closest Full Moon in 23 Years. https://web.archive.org/web/20081215031654/http://www.idialstars.com/clfumo.htm. dead. December 15, 2008. 2008-12-12. Bruce McClure's Astronomy Page.
- Web site: Bernhard Schmidt. University of Cambridge. https://web.archive.org/web/20080524175425/http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/history/schmidt. 2008-05-24. dead.
- Carles. J.. 1939. Les lentilles. Lentils. French. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Lyon. 8. 6. 146-153. 2019-01-27. Nous utilisons le remarquable ouvrage d’Helena BARULINA: Lentils of U.S.S.R. and of other countries, 1930...Le spécialiste des Lentilles est Mme Helena BARULINA. Dés 1930, elle publiait, en supplément au Bulletin of Applied Botany, un volume de plus de 300 pages sur les Lentilles (Lentils of U.S.S.R. and of other countries) quelle a résumé, en 1937, dans le tome IV de la Flore des Plantes cultivées..
- The Ten-Year Invention: Neoprene and Du Pont Research, 1930–1939. John K.. Smith. Technology and Culture. 3104528. 26. 1985. 34–55.
- Book: Struve. Vasilij Vasil'evič. Boris. Turaev. 1930. Mathematischer Papyrus des Staatlichen Museums der Schönen Künste in Moskau. Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik; Abteilung A. 1. Berlin. Springer.
- Book: Crilly, Tony. 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. registration. London. Quercus. 2007. 978-1-84724-008-8.
- Wainwright. M.. Swan. H.T.. C.G. Paine and the earliest surviving clinical records of penicillin therapy. Medical History. 30. 42–56. 1986. 3511336. 1139580. 10.1017/S0025727300045026.
- Web site: Wolfgang. Pauli. Chers Mesdames et Messieurs radioactifs. bibnum. 1930-12-04. 2017-04-07.
- Book: Kane, Joseph. Famous First Facts: A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries, and Inventions in American History. 5th. 1997. H.W. Wilson Company. 0-8242-0930-3. 5. registration.
- Web site: Israel Aharoni. Professor Paul's Lives of the Great Naturalists. 2 October 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20111002041311/http://www.ppne.co.uk/index.php?m=show&id=30551.
- Web site: Edward H. White II American astronaut . Encyclopedia Britannica . 19 January 2021 . en.