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Overview of the events of 1938 in science
The year 1938 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Ștefan Odobleja begins publication of his Psychologie consonantiste in Paris, seen in Romania as originating the study of cybernetics .
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January 10 – Donald Knuth , American computer scientist and mathematician
January 28 – Tomas Lindahl , Swedish biochemist , recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
March 5 – Lynn Margulis , American biologist (d. 2011 )
March 7 – David Baltimore , American biologist, university administrator and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
March 31 – Dennis H. Klatt , American pioneer of speech synthesis (d. 1988 )
April 3 – John Darley , American social psychologist
April 25 – Roger Boisjoly , American rocket engineer (d. 2012 )
May 11 – Fritz-Albert Popp , German biophysicist
May 16 – Ivan Sutherland , American computer scientist and Turing Award winner
June 29 – David Barker , English epidemiologist (d. 2013 )
July 2 – C. Kumar N. Patel , Indian electrical engineer
July 19 – Jayant Narlikar , Indian astrophysicist
September 3 – Ryōji Noyori , Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate
September 17 – Alec Broers, Baron Broers , British electrical engineer
September 26 – Alan Andrew Watson , Scottish astrophysicist
September 30 – Alfred Cuschieri , Malta -born laparoscopic surgeon
October 4 – Kurt Wüthrich , Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 22 – Michael Berridge , Rhodesian-born British physiologist and biochemist (d. 2020 )
November 7 – Edgardo Gomez , Filipino biologist (d. 2019 )
December 7 – George Hockham , English electrical engineer (d. 2013 )
December 23 – Bob Kahn , American Internet pioneer
References [ edit ]
^ Ellis, Richard (2004). No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species . New York: Harper Perennial. pp. 311 –312. ISBN 0-06-055804-0 .
^ Bawden, F. C.; Pirie, N. W. (1938). "Crystalline Preparations of Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus" . British Journal of Experimental Pathology . 19 : 251. PMC 2065153 .
^ US Patent 2,130,523 Linear polyamides suitable for spinning into strong pliable fibers ; US Patent 2,130,947 Diamine dicarboxylic acid salt and US Patent 2,130,948 Synthetic fibers . Trossarelli, L. (2010). "The history of nylon" . Club Alpino Italiano, Centro Studi Materiali e Tecniche. Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2012-02-28 .
^ Hofmann, Albert (1980). LSD — My Problem Child . McGraw–Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-029325-0 .
^ Talk given by Horst Zuse to the Computer Conservation Society at the Science Museum (London) on 18 November 2010.
^ Benford, Frank (1938). "The Law of Anomalous Numbers". Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 78 (4): 551–572. JSTOR 984802 .
^ Turing, A. M. (1939). "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society . Series 2. 45 (1): 161–228. doi :10.1112/plms/s2-45.1.161 . hdl :21.11116/0000-0001-91CE-3 .
^ "Turing's Princeton Dissertation" . Turing Centennial Celebration . Princeton University. 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-05 .
^ Pearl, R. (1938). "Tobacco Smoking and Longevity". Science . 87 (2253): 216–217. Bibcode :1938Sci....87..216P . doi :10.1126/science.87.2253.216 . PMID 17813231 .
^ Cordry, Harold V. (2001). Tobacco: a reference handbook . Contemporary world issues. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0874369670 .
^ Gross, Robert; Hubbard, John (1939). "Surgical Ligation of a Patent Ductus Arteriosus". Journal of the American Medical Association . 112 (8): 729. doi :10.1001/jama.1939.02800080049011 . ISSN 0002-9955 .
^ Andersen, Dorothy Hansine (1938). "Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas and its relation to celiac disease: a clinical and pathological study". American Journal of Diseases of Children . 56 (2): 344–399. doi :10.1001/archpedi.1938.01980140114013 .
^ Asperger, H. (1938). "The psychically abnormal child". Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift (in German). 51 : 1314–7.
^ Reynolds, L. A. (2006). Early Development of Total Hip Replacement . Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. ISBN 978-085484-111-0 .
^ Turner, H. H. (1938). "A syndrome of infantilism, congenital webbed neck and cubitus valgus". Endocrinology . 23 (5): 566–74. doi :10.1210/endo-23-5-566 .
^ Ives, Herbert E.; Stilwell, G. R. (1938). "An Experimental Study of the Rate of a Moving Atomic Clock" . Journal of the Optical Society of America . 28 (7): 215–19. Bibcode :1938JOSA...28..215I . doi :10.1364/JOSA.28.000215 . Retrieved 2011-09-23 .
^ Rabi, I.I.; Zacharias, J.R.; Millman, S.; Kusch, P. (1938). "A New Method of Measuring Nuclear Magnetic Moment" . Physical Review . 53 (4): 318–327. Bibcode :1938PhRv...53..318R . doi :10.1103/PhysRev.53.318 .
^ Vlasov, A. A. (1938). "On Vibration Properties of an Electron Gas" . Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics (in Russian). 8 (3): 444–70. Retrieved 2011-09-23 .