Overview of the events of 1942 in science
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The year 1942 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Computer science
Mathematics
- December – Raphaël Salem and Donald C. Spencer publish a progression-free Salem–Spencer set of the numbers from to of size proportional to , for every .[6]
Physics
Physiology and medicine
Psychology
Technology
Births
- January 8 – Stephen Hawking, English cosmologist and best-selling author of A Brief History of Time (died 2018)
- January 12 – Michel Mayor, Swiss astronomer, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics
- January 27 – Tasuku Honjo, Japanese immunologist, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- March 27 – John Sulston, English molecular biologist, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2018)
- May 24 – Fraser Stoddart, Scottish-born chemist, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- June 8 – Jacques Dubochet, Swiss biophysicist, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- August 24 – Karen Uhlenbeck, American mathematician
- October 20 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German developmental geneticist, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- November 14 – Hanna von Hoerner, German astrophysicist (died 2014)
- November 22 – Guion Bluford, African American aerospace engineer and astronaut
- November 30 – André Brahic, French astrophysicist (died 2016)
- December 1 – John Clauser, American quantum physicist, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics[18]
Deaths
- March 10 – William Henry Bragg, English recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics (born 1862)
- March 14 – Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde, German botanist (born 1873)
- May 19 – Joseph Larmor, Irish physicist (born 1857)
- August 6 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish audio engineer (born 1869)
- August 12 – Sabina Spielrein, Russian psychoanalyst, in Zmievskaya Balka massacre[19] (born 1885)
- September 22 – Isaak Bacharach, German mathematician (born 1854)
- October 5 – Dorothea Klumpke, American astronomer (born 1861)
- October 27 – Alfred Baker, Canadian mathematician (born 1848)
- November 3 – Ernest Gibbins, English entomologist, speared by Ugandan tribesmen amongst whom he was working (born 1900).
- November 5 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, biologist and winner of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1873)
- November 13 – Robert Remak, German mathematician, in Auschwitz (born 1888)
- December 21 – Franz Boas, German American anthropologist (born 1858)
- Vernon Orlando Bailey, American naturalist (born 1864)
References
- ^ Hey, J. S. (1975). The Radio Universe (2nd ed.). Oxford: Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-08-018760-9.
- ^ Westenhöfer, M. (1942). Der Eigenweg des Menschen. Mannstaedt & Co.
- ^ "Inventor of the Week Archive". Lemelson-MIT Program. September 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-09-30. Retrieved 2010-02-13.
- ^ "History of Kodak – 1930-1959". Kodak. Archived from the original on 2009-08-22. Retrieved 2012-01-10.
- ^ Ralston, Anthony; Meek, Christopher, eds. (1976). Encyclopedia of Computer Science (2nd ed.). pp. 488–489. ISBN 0-88405-321-0.
- ^ Salem, R.; Spencer, D. C. (December 1942). "On sets of integers which contain no three terms in arithmetical progression". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 28 (12). United States: 561–563. Bibcode:1942PNAS...28..561S. doi:10.1073/pnas.28.12.561. PMC 1078539. PMID 16588588.
- ^ Broad, William J. (30 October 2007). "Why They Called It the Manhattan Project". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
- ^ Jones, Vincent C. (1985). Manhattan, the Army and the atomic bomb. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army. pp. 41–43.
- ^ Klinefelter, H. F. jr; Reifenstein, E. C. jr; Albright, F. (1942). "Syndrome characterized by gynecomastia, aspermatogenesis without a-Leydigism and increased excretion of follicle-stimulating hormone". The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2 (11): 615–624. doi:10.1210/jcem-2-11-615.
- ^ Klinefelter, H. F. (September 1986). "Klinefelter's syndrome: historical background and development". Southern Medical Journal. 79 (9): 1089–93. doi:10.1097/00007611-198609000-00012. PMID 3529433.
- ^ Not published until 1946. Gilman, Alfred (1963). "The Initial Clinical Trial of Nitrogen Mustard". American Journal of Surgery. 105 (5): 574–578. doi:10.1016/0002-9610(63)90232-0. PMID 13947966.
- ^ Millikan, G. A. (1942). "The oximeter: an instrument for measuring continuously oxygen saturation of arterial blood in man". Review of Scientific Instruments. 13 (10): 434–444. Bibcode:1942RScI...13..434M. doi:10.1063/1.1769941.
- ^ #2,292,387.
- ^ Long, Tony (2011-08-11). "This Day in Tech: Aug. 11, 1942: Actress + Piano Player = New Torpedo". Wired. Retrieved 2012-09-26.
- ^ Angelucci, Enzo (1987). The American Fighter: the Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft from 1917 to the present. New York: Orion Books. p. 50.
- ^ Harpur, Brian (1991). A bridge to victory: the untold story of the Bailey Bridge. London: HMSO. p. 69. ISBN 0117726508.
- ^ Harford, Tim (2020). The Next Fifty things that made the modern economy. London: Bridge Street Press. pp. 151–2. ISBN 9781408712665.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022". Nobel Prize (Press release). The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 2022-10-04. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
- ^ "Rostov Jewish Community Calls For Survivors, Children to Remember Zmievskaya Balka". Chabad Lubavitch. 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2012-01-04.