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The year 1936 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Chemistry
- February 4 - Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
- December 23 - The first nerve agent, Tabun, is discovered (accidentally) by a research team headed by Dr Gerhard Schrader of IG Farben in Germany.[1][2]
Computer science
- May 28 - Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication.
Earth sciences
- Inge Lehmann argues that the Earth's molten interior has a solid inner core.[3][4]
Medicine
- António Egas Moniz publishes his first report of performing a prefrontal leukotomy on a human patient.[5]
Technology
- June 26 - Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first fully controllable helicopter, makes its first flight.
Zoology
- September 7 - Death of the last recorded thylacine, in Hobart Zoo.[6]
- American explorer Ruth Harkness brings the first live giant panda, a cub named Su Lin, out of China.[7]
Awards
- Fields Prize in Mathematics (first award): Lars Ahlfors and Jesse Douglas
- Nobel Prizes
Births
- January 10 - Robert Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer.
- December 22 - James Burke, English historian and populariser of science.
Deaths
- February 27 - Ivan Pavlov (born 1849), Russian physiologist.
- April 8 - Robert Bárány (born 1876), Nobel Prize winner in medicine.
- April 27 - Karl Pearson (born 1857), English mathematician.
References
- ^ "A Short History of the Development of Nerve Gases". Noblis.org. http://www.noblis.org/AShortHistoryOfTheDevelopmentOfNerveGases.htm. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
- ^ "Nerve Agent: GA". Cbwinfo.com. http://www.cbwinfo.com/Chemical/Nerve/GA.shtml. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
- ^ Lehmann, Inge (1936). "P'". Publications du Bureau Central Séismologique International A14 (3): S.87–115.
- ^ Bolt, Bruce A. (1987). "50 years of studies on the inner core". Eos 68 (6): 73,80–81.
- ^ "Biography". Nobelprize.org. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1949/moniz.html. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
- ^ Paddle, Robert (2000). The Last Tasmanian Tiger: the History and Extinction of the Thylacine. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-53154-3.
- ^ Watson, D. A.. "The Panda Lady: Ruth Harkness (Part 1)". Female explorers. http://femexplorers.com/full_article.php?article_id=17. Retrieved 2007-02-01.[dead link]
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