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The year 1935 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

## Astronomy

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* May 14 – Opening of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
* October 3 – Opening of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.

## Chemistry

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* February 28–March 1 – Working with polyamides to develop a viable new fiber for chemical company DuPont, American chemist Gérard Berchet working under the direction of Wallace Carothers first synthesizes the synthetic polymer nylon at Wilmington, Delaware.[1]
* April 13 – Dorothy Hodgkin publishes her first solo paper, on the methodology of X-ray crystallography of insulin.[2]
* Vitamin E is first isolated in a pure form by Gladys Anderson Emerson at the University of California, Berkeley.[3]
* Eastman Kodak first market Kodachrome subtractive color reversal film as 16 mm movie film.[4][5] It has been invented by two professional musicians, Leopold Godowsky Jr. and Leopold Mannes.[6][7][8]

## Ecology

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* English botanist Arthur Tansley introduces the concept of the ecosystem.[9][10]

## Geology

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* Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg develop the Richter magnitude scale for quantifying earthquakes.

## History of science and technology

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* American bacteriologist Hans Zinsser publishes Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which... deals with the life history of typhus fever.[11]
* Cornish Engines Preservation Committee formed to conserve the Levant Mine beam engine in Cornwall, England.

## Mathematics

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* April 19 – Alonzo Church presents his paper "An unsolvable problem of elementary number theory", introducing his theorem on the Entscheidungsproblem, to the American Mathematical Society.[12]
* Octav Onicescu and Gheorghe Mihoc develop the notion of the "chain with complete links" in probability theory.[13]
* George Pólya develops counting techniques for graphs as algebra.[14]
* George K. Zipf proposes Zipf's law on probability distribution.[15]

## Pharmacology

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* January 2 – IG Farben are granted a patent in Germany for the medical application of the first sulfonamide prodrug, Sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730; marketed as Prontosil). In February, Gerhard Domagk and others publish (in Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift) the first clinical results on its properties as an antibiotic, the first commercially available; and in November a team directed by Ernest Fourneau at the Pasteur Institute identify sulfanilamide as the active component.[16]

## Physics

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* January 8 – A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.
* February 26 – Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins first demonstrate the reflection of radio waves from an aircraft, near Daventry in England;[17] on June 17, the first radio detection of an aircraft by ground-based radar is made at Orford Ness.
* Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen publish a paper arguing that quantum mechanics is not a complete physical theory (the EPR paradox).[18] Discussion of this introduces the 'Schrödinger's cat' thought experiment.[19]
* Jacques Yvon introduces S-particle distribution functions in classical statistical mechanics;[20] they will later be included in the BBGKY hierarchy.

## Physiology and medicine

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* January 28 – Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion on medical grounds.
* May – The hormone testosterone is first isolated and named by a team at Organon in the Netherlands led by German scientist Ernst Laqueur.[21] In August, the chemical synthesis of testosterone from cholesterol is achieved by Adolf Butenandt and Günther Hanisch.[22] A week later, the Ciba group in Zurich, Leopold Ruzicka and A. Wettstein, publish their synthesis of the hormone.[23]
* Ladislas J. Meduna discovers metrazol shock therapy.
* First vaccine for yellow fever.
* German physician Karl Matthes develops the first two-wavelength ear O2 saturation meter.[24]

## Technology

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* January 24 – The first beer can is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company.[25]
* June 12 – Conrad Bahr and George Pfefferle file a United States patent for an adjustable ratcheting torque wrench.[26]
* July 16 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City to a design by Holger George Thuesen and Gerald A. Hale patented by Carl Magee.[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]
* November 6
* Edwin H. Armstrong presents his paper on FM broadcasting, "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation", to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
* First flight of the Hawker Hurricane British fighter aircraft, designed by Sydney Camm.
* Callender-Hamilton bridge patented by A. M. Hamilton.
* Helical lobe rotary-screw compressor patented by Alf Lysholm of Ljungstroms Angturbin in Sweden.

## Events

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* September 16–21 – First Congress for the Unity of Science is held at the Sorbonne.[35]

## Awards

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* Nobel Prizes
* Physics – James Chadwick
* Chemistry – Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie
* Medicine – Hans Spemann

## Births

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* January 26 – Andrew J. Stofan, American astronautical engineer.
* January 29 – Roger Payne (died 2023), American biologist and zoologist.[36]
* February 15 – Roger B. Chaffee (died in accident 1967), American astronaut.[37]
* February 27 – Anne Treisman, née Taylor (died 2018), English-born psychologist.
* April 11 – Kazys Almenas (died 2017), Lithuanian physicist, engineer and publisher.
* April 25 – Jim Peebles, Canadian-born theoretical cosmologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.[38]
* June 1 – Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta (died 2017), French-born mathematician.[39][40]
* June 14 – Louise Hay, née Schmir (died 1989), French-born American mathematician.
* June 25 – Charles Sheffield (died 2002), English-born science fiction author and physicist.
* June 30 – Animesh Chakravorty, Bengali Indian academic, chemistry professor.
* July 2 – Sergei Khrushchev, Soviet, Russian and American control engineer (died 2020).[41]
* July 7 – H. Franklin Bunn, American physician, hematologist and biochemist.
* July 12 – Satoshi Ōmura, Japanese biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[42]
* July 14 – Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[43]
* August 3 – Georgy Shonin (died 1997), Ukrainian cosmonaut.
* August 26 – Karen Spärck Jones (died 2007), English computer scientist.
* September 11 – Gherman Titov (died 2000), Soviet cosmonaut.
* September 12 – Harvey J. Alter, American virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize.
* September 19 – Milan Antal (died 1999), Slovak astronomer
* October 23 – JacSue Kehoe, American neuroscientist
* October 26 – Ora Mendelsohn Rosen (died 1990), American biomedical researcher.
* October 31 – Ronald Graham (died 2020), American mathematician.
* November 16 – Magdi Yacoub, Egyptian-born cardiothoracic surgeon.
* November 20 – Michael F. Ashby, English materials engineer.
* December 27 – Stephan Tanneberger (died 2018), German oncologist, chemist.

## Deaths

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* February 15 – Bohuslav Brauner, Czech chemist (born 1855)[44]
* March 7 – Mary Gage Day, American physician (born 1857)[45]
* March 12 – Mihajlo Pupin (born 1858), Serbian American physicist.
* March 16 – John Macleod (born 1876), Scottish physician and physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[46]
* May 12 – Abraham Groves (born 1847), Canadian surgeon.
* May 21 – Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist (born 1848)[47]
* July 3 – André Citroën (born 1878), French automobile manufacturer.[48]
* August 21 – Kintarô Okamura (born 1867), Japanese phycologist.
* September 19 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (born 1857)[49]
* September 28 – W. K. Dickson (born 1860), British cinematographic pioneer.[50]
* December 4 – Charles Richet (born 1850), French physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[51]
* November 6 – Henry Fairfield Osborn (born 1857), American paleontologist.
* November 21 – Agnes Pockels (born 1862), German chemist.[52]
* December 10 – Sir John Carden, 6th Baronet (born 1892), English tank and vehicle designer (died in 1935 SABENA Savoia-Marchetti S.73 crash).
* December 12 – Charles Loomis Dana (born 1852), American neurologist.
* December 13 – Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1871)[53]

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