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Overview of the events of 1924 in science
The year 1924 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration [ edit ]
Andromeda Galaxy
Biology [ edit ]
Biochemistry [ edit ]
History of science and technology [ edit ]
Mathematics [ edit ]
Medicine [ edit ]
Paleontology [ edit ]
Physics [ edit ]
Technology [ edit ]
February – Li Xintian (died 2019 ), Chinese neuropsychologist
February 21 – Thelma Estrin (died 2014 ), American computer scientist and biomedical engineer
March 2 – Michael Sela (died 2022 ), Polish-born Israeli immunologist
March 11 – Franco Basaglia (died 1980 ), Italian psychiatrist
March 12 – Mary Lee Woods (died 2017 ), English mathematician and computer programmer
March 23
May 3 – Isadore Singer (died 2021 ), American mathematician
May 7 – James Learmonth Gowans (died 2020 ), British immunologist
May 11 – Antony Hewish (died 2021 ), English radioastronomer (Nobel Prize in Physics 1974 )
June 24 – James W. Black (died 2010 ), Scottish pharmacologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , 1988 )
July 8 – Robert M. Chanock (died 2010 ), American pediatrician and virologist
July 15 – David Cox (died 2022 ), English statistician
August 1 – John Clive Ward (died 2000 ), English -born physicist working in quantum electrodynamics
September 10 – Elizabeth Killick (died 2019 ), English naval electronics engineer
September 22 – Laurel van der Wal (died 2009 ), American aeronautical engineer
September 26 – Jean Hoerni (died 1997 ), Swiss -born microelectronics engineer
November 9 – Don Beaven (died 2009), New Zealand medical researcher in the area of diabetes treatment and prevention
November 20 – Benoît Mandelbrot (died 2010), Polish -born French American mathematician , originator of fractal geometry
December 30 – Yvonne Brill (died 2013 ), Canadian scientist best known for her work developing rocket and jet propulsion technologies
References [ edit ]
^ In The New York Times . Sharov, Aleksandr Sergeevich; Novikov, Igor Dmitrievich (1993). Edwin Hubble, the discoverer of the big bang universe . Cambridge University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-521-41617-7 . Retrieved 2011-12-31 . Formally published December 30 and presented as a paper at the January 1, 1925 meeting of the American Astronomical Society . Bartusiak, Marcia (2010). The Day We Found the Universe . Random House. pp. x–xi. ISBN 9780307276605 .
^ "Artificial Wombs Are Coming, but the Controversy Is Already Here" . Motherboard . 4 August 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014 .
^ James, David N. (1987). "Ectogenesis: A Reply to Singer and Wells". Bioethics . 1 (1): 80–99. doi :10.1111/j.1467-8519.1987.tb00006.x . PMID 11649763 .
^ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2011). "Tetanus" (PDF) . Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases . Washington, D.C.: Public Health Foundation. ISBN 978-0-01-706609-1 . Retrieved 2012-07-07 .
^ Russell, Ben (2014). James Watt: making the world anew . London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-78023-375-8 .
^ Banach, Stefan; Tarski, Alfred (1924). "Sur la décomposition des ensembles de points en parties respectivement congruentes" (PDF) . Fundamenta Mathematicae . 6 : 244–277. doi :10.4064/fm-6-1-244-277 .
^ Gamow, George (1947). One Two Three ... Infinity . New York: Viking Press. p. 17.
^ Haas, L. F. (2003). "Hans Berger (1873-1941), Richard Caton (1842-1926) and electroencephalography" . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry . 74 (1): 9. doi :10.1136/jnnp.74.1.9 . PMC 1738204 . PMID 12486257 .
^ "Band-Aid Brand: A History of Innovation" . September 28, 2023.
^ Dart, Raymond A. (February 1925). "Australopithecus africanus : The Man-Ape of South Africa" (PDF) . Nature . 115 (2884): 195–99. Bibcode :1925Natur.115..195D . doi :10.1038/115195a0 .
^ Stoner, E. C. (1924). "The distribution of electrons among atomic levels". Philosophical Magazine . 6th ser. 48 (286): 719–736. doi :10.1080/14786442408634535 .
^ "Louis de Broglie: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929" . Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922–1941 . Elsevier. 1965. Retrieved 2007-02-28 .
^ "Landmark Dates" . British TV History . Archived from the original on 1 November 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-12 .
^ "Kleenex Brand Story" . September 28, 2023.
^ L. Vaillard; Agathe Floderer; Alexandre Wauthier. "Vallin Émile Arthur" . cths.fr (in French). Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 11 February 2021 .