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Overview of the events of 1928 in science
The year 1928 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Anthropology
Archaeology
Biology
Chemistry
Computer science
April – Leslie Comrie publishes an article "On the Construction of Tables by Interpolation", describing the use of punched card equipment for interpolating tables of data, and becomes the first to use such equipment for scientific calculations, using Fourier synthesis to compute the principal terms in the motion of the Moon for 1935–2000.
History of science
Mathematics
Medicine
October 12 – An 'poliomyelitis
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Physics
Technology
Publications
Awards
Births
January 4 – Henry T. Lynch (died 2019 ), American cancer geneticist.
January 12 – Gerald Russell (died 2018 ), British psychiatrist .
January 14 – Hans Kornberg (died 2019), German-English biochemist.[22]
February 14 – Sergey Kapitsa (died 2018 ), Russian physicist and demographer.
February 18 – paleontologist
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March 8 – Gerald Bull (killed 1990 ), Canadian ballistics engineer .
March 14 – Frank Borman (died 2023 ), American astronaut.
March 25 – Jim Lovell , American astronaut.
March 28 – Alexander Grothendieck (died 2014 ), German-born French mathematician , pioneer of modern algebraic geometry .
April 6 – James Watson , American geneticist .
April 20 – .
April 29 – bioengineer
and science populariser.
May 2 – Hans Trass (died 2017), Estonian ecologist and botanist.
May 4 – Bill Mollison (died 2016 ), Australian biologist, pioneer of permaculture .
May 23 – Jean E. Sammet (died 2017 ), American computer programmer.
May 26 – .
June 2 – paleoanthropologist
.
June 13 – laureate.
June 25 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (died 2017), Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate.
[23]
July 6 – Bernard Malgrange (died 2024 ), French mathematician.
July 12 – Elias James Corey , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.[24]
July 23 – Vera Rubin , née Cooper (died 2016), American astronomer .
August 25 – Herbert Kroemer , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.[25]
September 7 – epidemiologist
.
October 7 – Lorna Wing , née Tolchard (died 2014), English psychiatrist.
October 25 – Peter Naur (died 2016), Danish data scientist.
October 26 – Erich Kukk (died 2017 ), Estonian phycologist and conservationist.
October 30 – Daniel Nathans (died 1999 ), American microbiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate.[26]
November 22 – palaeobotanist
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November 28 – Tove Birkelund (died 1986), Danish historical geologist.
December 26 – Martin Cooper , American "father of the mobile phone ".
Deaths
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^ Pearl, Raymond (1928). The Rate of Living, Being an Account of Some Experimental Studies on the Biology of Life Duration . New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
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^ Raman, C. V. (1928). "A new radiation" . Indian Journal of Physics . 2 : 387–398. Retrieved 2013-04-14 .
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^ Dirac, Paul A. M. (1933-12-12). "Theory of Electrons and Positrons" . The Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-22 .
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^ Obituaries, Telegraph (18 December 2019). "Professor Sir Hans Kornberg, German-born biochemist and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge who did pioneering research into how bacteria work – obituary" . The Telegraph .
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