Overview of the events of 1937 in science
The year 1937 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
June 8 – First total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality in over 800 years; visible in the Pacific and Peru.
January 14 – Leo Kadanoff , American physicist (died 2015 )
January 26 – Igor Aleksander , Croatian computer scientist.
February 18 – Chen Chuangtian (died 2018 ), Chinese materials scientist .
March 16 – Amos Tversky (died 1996 ), Jewish American cognitive and mathematical psychologist , recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences .
April 17 – Don Buchla (died 2016 ), American electronic engineer, pioneer of sound synthesizers .
May 9 – Alison Jolly (died 2014 ), American primatologist .
May 13 – Trevor Baylis (died 2018 ), English inventor.
June 8 – Bruce McCandless II (died 2017 ), American astronaut .
June 9 – Harald Rosenthal , German biologist
June 11 – David Mumford , American mathematician .
June 21 – Averil Mansfield , English vascular surgeon .
June 23 – Nicholas Shackleton (died 2006 ), English Quaternary geologist and paleoclimatologist, recipient of the Vetlesen Prize .
June 26 – Robert Coleman Richardson (died 2013 ), American experimental physicist , recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics .
July 1 – Lydia Makhubu , Swazi chemist.
July 19 – Bibb Latané , American social psychologist .
July 26 – Ernest Vinberg (died 2020 ), Russian mathematician.
August 2 – Coenraad Bron , Dutch computer scientist (d. 2006 )
September 8 – Edna Adan Ismail , Somali pioneer of pediatrics .
December 26 – John Horton Conway , English-born mathematician (d. 2020 )
January 28 – Arthur Pollen (born 1866 ), English inventor .
January 29 – Aleen Cust (born 1868 ), Irish veterinary surgeon .
February 5 – Lou Andreas-Salomé (born 1861 ), German psychoanalyst .
May 28 – Alfred Adler (born 1870 ), Austrian psychotherapist .
June 11 – R. J. Mitchell (born 1895 ), English aeronautical engineer .
July 20 – Guglielmo Marconi (born 1874 ), Italian inventor.
July 30 – Victor Despeignes (born 1866), French pioneer of radiation oncology .
October 16 – William Sealy Gosset (born 1876 ), English statistician .
October 19 – Ernest Rutherford (born 1871 ), New Zealand-born British physicist and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
November 23 – Jagadish Chandra Bose (born 1858 ), Bengali physicist .
^ "Death of a Bali Tiger" . Save The Tiger Fund. Archived from the original on 2008-05-11. Retrieved 2020-03-10 .
^ Crawford, Meredith P. (1937). The Coöperative Solving of Problems by Young Chimpanzees . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press.
^ Chapman, Arthur B. (1987). "Jay Laurence Lush" . Biographical Memoirs . 57 . United States: National Academy of Sciences : 279. Retrieved 2012-01-04 .
^ Heiserman, D. L. (1992). "Element 43: Technetium". Exploring Chemical Elements and their Compounds . New York: TAB Books. p. 164 . ISBN 978-0-8306-3018-9 .
^ Emsley, John (2001). Nature's Building Blocks: an A-Z Guide to the Elements . Oxford University Press. p. 424 . ISBN 978-0-19-850340-8 .
^ Perrier, C.; Segrè, E. (1947). "Technetium: the Element of Atomic Number 43". Nature . 159 (4027): 24. Bibcode :1947Natur.159...24P . doi :10.1038/159024a0 . PMID 20279068 . S2CID 4136886 .
^ Bockmuhl, M. (1948). "Über eine neue Klasse von analgetisch wirkenden Verbindungen". Ann. Chem . 52 : 561.
^ Turing, A. M. (1937). "On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem " . Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society . Series 2. 42 : 230–265. doi :10.1112/plms/s2-42.1.230 . S2CID 73712 . Retrieved 2017-12-24 .
^ Poundstone, William (2005). Fortune's Formula: the Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street . New York: Hill & Wang. ISBN 978-0-8090-4637-9 .
^ "British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-37" . Cambridge: Scott Polar Research Institute . 2011-03-31. Retrieved 2013-08-13 .
^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know . London: Quercus. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8 .
^ Whitehead, George W. (1953). "On the Freudenthal Theorems". Annals of Mathematics . 57 (2): 209–228. doi :10.2307/1969855 . JSTOR 1969855 . MR 0055683 .
^ Goldberg, Michael (1937). "A class of multi-symmetric polyhedra" . Tohoku Mathematical Journal . 43 : 104–108.
^ Lesch, John (2007). "Chapter 7". The First Miracle Drugs (Illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518775-5 .
^ Plotkin, S. L.; S. A. (2008). "A short history of vaccination". In Plotkin, Stanley A.; Orenstein, Walter A.; Offit, Paul A. (ed.). Vaccines . Elsevier Health Sciences. p. 8. {{cite book }}
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^ "An expectant public" . 60 years of NHS Scotland . 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-09-28. Retrieved 2011-04-21 .
^ Einstein, Albert; Rosen, Nathan (January 1937). "On gravitational waves". Journal of the Franklin Institute . 223 (1). United States: 43–54. doi :10.1016/s0016-0032(37)90583-0 . ISSN 0016-0032 .
^ Wigner, E. (1937). "On the Consequences of the Symmetry of the Nuclear Hamiltonian on the Spectroscopy of Nuclei". Physical Review . 51 (2): 106–119. Bibcode :1937PhRv...51..106W . doi :10.1103/PhysRev.51.106 .
^ GB 496883 , "Improvements in or relating to thermionic valve amplifying circuits"
^ "Electric toothbrush" . Google Patents . 1937-12-13. Retrieved 2024-08-26 .