1933 in science explained
The year 1933 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Chemistry
Earth sciences
Mathematics
Physics
Physiology and medicine
Technology
Organizations
Awards
Births
- January 6 – Oleg Makarov (died 2003), Soviet cosmonaut.
- January 18 – David Bellamy (died 2019), English botanist.
- March 9 – Sir David Weatherall (died 2018), English molecular geneticist.
- March 10 – Patricia Bergquist (died 2009), New Zealand scientist specializing in anatomy and taxonomy.
- March 23 – Philip Zimbardo, American social psychologist.
- April 1 – Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist and Nobel laureate
- April 14 – Yuri Oganessian, Russian nuclear physicist.
- April 26 – Arno Allan Penzias (died 2024), German-born American physicist and radio astronomer.
- May 22 – Chen Jingrun (died 1996), Chinese mathematician.
- July 9 – Oliver Sacks (died 2015), English-born neurologist.
- July 12 – Max Birnstiel (died 2014), Swiss molecular biologist.
- August 10 – Ed Posner (died 1993), American mathematician.
- August 15
- September 6 – Juliet Clutton-Brock (died 2015), English zooarchaeologist.
- September 10 – Yevgeny Khrunov (died 2000), Soviet cosmonaut.
- September 26 – Charles C. Conley (died 1984), American mathematician specializing in dynamical systems.
- October 2 – Sir John Gurdon, English developmental biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- October 9 – Sir Peter Mansfield (died 2017), English physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- November 1 – Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, Bengali-born mathematician.
- November 4 – Sir Charles K. Kao (died 2018), Chinese electrical engineer and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- November 14 – Akira Endo (died 2024), Japanese biochemist.[24]
- December 22 – Thomas Stockham (died 2004), American electrical engineer and inventor
- December 23 – Akihito, ichthyologist and Emperor of Japan.
Deaths
Notes and References
- The spot on Saturn. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. London. 94. 1933. 85. Hay. W. T.. 2017-05-11. 1933MNRAS..94...85H. 10.1093/mnras/94.1.85. free.
- Zwicky. F.. 1933AcHPh...6..110Z. Die Rotverschiebung von extragalaktischen Nebeln. 1933. Helvetica Physica Acta. 6. 110–127.
- Lewis. G. N.. The Isotopes of Hydrogen. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 1933. 55. 1297. 10.1021/ja01330a511. 3.
- The Peroxide Effect in the Addition of Reagents to Unsaturated Compounds. I. The Addition of Hydrogen Bromide to Allyl Bromide. Kharasch, M. S.. Mayo, Frank R.. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 1933. 55. 6. 2468–2496. 10.1021/ja01333a041.
- Radicals: Reactive Intermediates with Translational Potential. Yan, Ming. Lo, Julian C.. Edwards, Jacob T.. Baran, Phil S.. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2016. 138. 39. 12692–12714. 10.1021/jacs.6b08856. 5054485. 27631602.
- Book: Crilly, Tony. 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London. Quercus. 2007. 978-1-84724-008-8. 125.
- D. G.. Champernowne. The construction of decimals normal in the scale of ten. Journal of the London Mathematical Society. 8. 4. 1933. 254–260. 10.1112/jlms/s1-8.4.254.
- News: Professor David Champernowne. The Daily Telegraph. London. 4 September 2000. 2011-12-02. .
- Alfred. Haar. Der Massbegriff in der Theorie der kontinuierlichen Gruppen. Annals of Mathematics. 34. 2. 1. January 1933. 147–169. 1968346. 10.2307/1968346.
- Neyman. Jerzy. Pearson. Egon S.. 10.1098/rsta.1933.0009. On the Problem of the Most Efficient Tests of Statistical Hypotheses. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 231. 694–706. 289–337. 1933. 91247. 1933RSPTA.231..289N. free.
- S.. Skewes. On the difference π(x) − Li(x). Journal of the London Mathematical Society. 8. 1933. 277–283. 2011-12-02. 10.1112/jlms/s1-8.4.277. https://web.archive.org/web/20111001130128/http://www.ift.uni.wroc.pl/~mwolf/Skewes1933.pdf. 2011-10-01. dead.
- History of nephrology: Ukrainian aspects. 10.1038/ki.2011.363 . 81. 2012. Kidney International. 118 . Khadzhynov . Dmytro . Peters . Harm. free.
- Surgeon Yurii Voronoy (1895–1961) – a pioneer in the history of clinical transplantation: in Memoriam at the 75th Anniversary of the First Human Kidney Transplantation. Matevossian, Edouard. etal. Transplant International. 0934-0874. European Society for Organ Transplantation. 2009. 1132–1139. 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2009.00986.x. 22. 12. 19874569. 12087935 .
- Book: Klein, Andrew. etal. Organ Transplantation: A Clinical Guide. Cambridge University Press. 2011. 2.
- Book: Humar, Abhinav. etal. Atlas of Organ Transplantation. Springer. 2009. 1.
- Smith, Wilson; Andrewes, C. H.; Laidlaw, P. P.. 1933. A virus obtained from influenza patients. The Lancet. 2. 5732. 66–68. 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)78541-2. free.
- Coming into force January 1934. Book: Black, Edwin. Edwin Black
. IBM and the Holocaust. Edwin Black. 2001. Crown / Random House. 93. IBM and the Holocaust.
- Wortis. J.. In Memoriam Manfred Sakel. American Journal of Psychiatry. 115. 1958. 287–8. 10.1176/ajp.115.3.287.
- Web site: US1900118A Hydraulic variable speed power transmission. Espacenet. 1933-03-07. 2023-10-13.
- News: Lawrence. Williams L.. Human-like eye made by engineers to televise images. 'Iconoscope' converts scenes into electrical energy for radio transmission. Fast as a movie camera. Three million tiny photo cells 'memorize', then pass out pictures. Step to home television. Developed in ten years' work by Dr. V.K. Zworykin, who describes it at Chicago. The New York Times. 27 June 1933. 9780824077822 .
- The Iconoscope, America's latest television favourite. Zworykin. V. K.. Wireless World. 33 . 197. September 1933. 9780824077822.
- Television with cathode ray tubes. Zworykin. V. K.. Journal of the IEE. 73 . 437–451. Institution of Electrical Engineers. October 1933. 9780824077822.
- Book: Abramson, Albert. The History of Television, 1942 to 2000. McFarland. 2003. 978-0-7864-1220-4. 18.
- https://www.akita-abs.co.jp/nnn//news936r22ziz9q0fio89n.html 【訃報】由利本荘市出身 遠藤章さん5日に死去