Overview of the events of 1927 in science
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The year 1927 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and astrophysics
Botany
Chemistry
Environment
Genetics
Mathematics
Medicine
Microbiology
- Ronald Canti's ground-breaking stop-motion cinematic technique vividly illustrated the microscopic behaviour of normal and neoplastic cells; irradiation was shown to cause immobilisation and mitotic arrest in suspensions of cells.[8][9]
Physics
Technology
Zoology
Awards
Births
- January 13 – Sydney Brenner (died 2019) South African-born molecular biologist; recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- January 29 – Lewis Urry (died 2004), Canadian inventor of the long-lasting alkaline battery.
- March 9 – Julian Tudor Hart (died 2018), British physician.
- March 16 – Vladimir Komarov (died 1967), Russian cosmonaut on Soyuz 1.
- April 4 – Frederick I. Ordway III (died 2014), American space scientist.
- April 10 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg (died 2010), American biochemist and geneticist; recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- April 18 – Nicole Grasset (died 2009), Swiss-French medical virologist and microbiologist-epidemiologist.
- April 19 – Martin Wood (died 2021), English applied physicist.
- April 26 – Anne McLaren (died 2007), English developmental biologist.
- April 29 – Walter Thirring (died 2014), Austrian mathematical physicist.
- May 26 – Endel Tulving, Estonian-Canadian experimental psychologist, cognitive neuroscientist.
- June 10 – Eugene Parker (died 2022), American solar astrophysicist.
- June 21 – Ye Shuhua, Chinese astronomer.
- June 22 – Karl Schügerl (died 2018), Hungarian chemical engineer.
- July 2 – R. J. G. Savage (died 1998), Northern Ireland-born palaeontologist.
- July 29 – Gerald Westbury (died 2014), English cancer surgeon.
- August 2 – Gabriel Horn (died 2012), English biologist.
- August 9 – Marvin Minsky (died 2016), American computer scientist, pioneer of artificial intelligence.
- September 4 – John McCarthy (died 2011), American computer scientist and cognitive scientist.
- October 27 – Mikhail Postnikov (died 2004), Soviet mathematician, known for his work in algebraic and differential topology.
- November 12 – Yutaka Taniyama (suicide 1958), Japanese mathematician.
- November 13 – Billy Klüver (died 2004), Swedish-American engineer, co-founded Experiments in Art and Technology
- November 20 – Kikuo Takano (died 2006), Japanese poet and mathematician.
- November 27 – Arnold Clark (died 2017), Scottish inventor.
- December 9 – Ralph Kohn (died 2016), German-born British medical scientist
- December 23 – Edith Irby Jones, born Edith Mae Irby (died 2019), African American physician.
- December 27 – George Streisinger (died 1984), Hungarian-born molecular biologist, first person to clone a vertebrate.
Deaths
- January 19 – Carl Gräbe (born 1841), German chemist.
- February 9 – Charles Walcott (born 1850), American paleontologist.
- March 4 – Ira Remsen (born 1846), American chemist.
- March 27 – William Healey Dall (born 1845), American malacologist and explorer.
- May 2 – Ernest Starling (born 1866), English physiologist.
- August 3 – Edward B. Titchener (born 1867), American structuralist psychologist.
- August 13 – James Oliver Curwood (born 1887), American novelist and conservationist.
- September 14 – Julian Sochocki (born 1842), Polish-born mathematician.
- October 2 – Svante Arrhenius (born 1859), Swedish winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- November 11 – Wilhelm Johannsen (born 1857), Danish plant physiologist and geneticist.
- December 2 – Paul Heinrich von Groth (born 1843), German mineralogist.
- December 24 – Vladimir Bekhterev (born 1857), Russian psychologist.
References
- ^ Heitler, Walter; London, Fritz (1927). "Wechselwirkung neutraler Atome und homöopolare Bindung nach der Quantenmechanik". Zeitschrift für Physik. 44 (6–7): 455–472. Bibcode:1927ZPhy...44..455H. doi:10.1007/BF01397394.
- ^ Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (2003). Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1266.
- ^ Mehra, Jagdish; Rechenberg, Helmut (2001). The Historical Development of Quantum Theory. Springer. p. 540.
- ^ "A brief history of climate change". BBC. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
- ^ Pearl, Raymond (1927). "The biology of superiority". American Mercury. 12: 257–266.
- ^ Allen, Garland E. (1987). "The role of experts in scientific controversy". In Engelhardt, Hugo Tristram; Caplan, Arthur Leonard (eds.). Scientific controversies: case studies in the resolution and closure of disputes in science and technology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 169‒202. ISBN 9780521275606.
- ^ "World of Scientific Discovery on Antonio Egas Moniz". BookRags. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ^ "Canti Film Demonstrates New Research Methods". A.S.C.C. Campaign Notes. 11. February 1929.
- ^ Canti, Ronald (1928). "Cinematograph demonstration of living tissue cells growing in vitro". Archiv für experimentelle Zellforschung. 6: 86–97.
- ^ Lemaître, G. (April 1927). "Un Univers homogène de masse constante et de rayon croissant rendant compte de la vitesse radiale des nébuleuses extra-galactiques". Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles (in French). 47: 49–59. Bibcode:1927ASSB...47...49L. ("A Homogeneous Universe of Constant Mass and Growing Radius Accounting for the Radial Velocity of Extra-galactic Nebulæ".)
- ^ van den Bergh, Sidney (2011-06-06). "The Curious Case of Lemaitre's Equation No. 24". arXiv:1106.1195 [physics.hist-ph].
- ^ Block, David L. (2011-06-20). "A Hubble Eclipse: Lemaitre and Censorship". Astrophysics and Space Science Library: 89–96. arXiv:1106.3928. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-32254-9_8.
- ^ Reich, Eugenie Samuel (2011-06-27). "Edwin Hubble in translation trouble". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2011.385. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ^ Livio, Mario (2011-11-10). "Lost in translation: Mystery of the missing text solved". Nature. 479 (7372): 171–3. Bibcode:2011Natur.479..171L. doi:10.1038/479171a. PMID 22071745.
- ^ "Big bang theory is introduced, 1927". People and Discoveries. PBS. 1998. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ^ "1927: Lemaître – Big Bang". Chemsoc Timeline. Royal Society of Chemistry. 2004. Archived from the original on 2002-10-21. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ^ Pescatore, Jean-Pierre; Borgeot, Jean-Henri (2010). "Chapter 10: Welding Steel Structures". In Blondeau, Regis (ed.). Metallurgy and mechanics of welding: processes and industrial application. John Wiley & Sons. p. 359. ISBN 9780470393895.