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Overview of the events of 1927 in science
The year 1927 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and astrophysics [ edit ]
Chemistry [ edit ]
Environment [ edit ]
Genetics [ edit ]
Mathematics [ edit ]
Medicine [ edit ]
Microbiology [ edit ]
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]
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Technology [ edit ]
Zoology [ edit ]
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.
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 [ edit ]
^ 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 .