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The year 1933 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Astronomy
- Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky invent the concept of neutron star, a new type of celestial object. They suggest that supernovae might be created by the collapse of a normal star to form a neutron star.
Engineering Seismology
First recording of earthquake strong ground motions, 10 March 1933 Long Beach (California) Earthquake, by an accelerograph network installed in 1932 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Births
- January 6 - Oleg Makarov (d. 2003), cosmonaut
- September 10 - Yevgeny Khrunov (d. 2000), cosmonaut
Deaths
- September 25 - Paul Ehrenfest (b. 1880), Austrian physicist and mathematician.
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