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Overview of the events of 1924 in science
The year 1924 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
Andromeda Galaxy
Biology
Biochemistry
History of science and technology
Mathematics
Medicine
Paleontology
Physics
Technology
Awards
Births
February –
Li Xintian (died
2019 ),
Chinese
neuropsychologist
February 21 –
Thelma Estrin (died
2014 ),
American computer scientist and biomedical engineer
March 2 –
Michael Sela (died
2022 ), Polish-born Israeli immunologist
March 11 –
Franco Basaglia (died
1980 ),
Italian
psychiatrist
March 12 –
Mary Lee Woods (died
2017 ),
English mathematician and computer programmer
March 23
May 3 –
Isadore Singer (died
2021 ), American mathematician
May 7 –
James Learmonth Gowans (died
2020 ), British immunologist
May 11 –
Antony Hewish (died
2021 ), English radioastronomer (
Nobel Prize in Physics
1974 )
June 11 –
César Lattes (died
2005 ),
Brazilian
experimental physicist (
Nobel Prize in Physic ,
1950 )
June 24 –
James W. Black (died
2010 ),
Scottish
pharmacologist (
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ,
1988 )
July 8 –
Robert M. Chanock (died
2010 ), American
pediatrician and
virologist
July 15 –
David Cox (died
2022 ), English
statistician
August 1 –
John Clive Ward (died
2000 ),
English -born
physicist working in
quantum electrodynamics
September 10 –
Elizabeth Killick (died
2019 ), English naval
electronics engineer
September 22 –
Laurel van der Wal (died
2009 ), American
aeronautical engineer
September 26 –
Jean Hoerni (died
1997 ),
Swiss -born microelectronics engineer
November 9 –
Don Beaven (died 2009),
New Zealand medical researcher in the area of
diabetes treatment and prevention
November 20 –
Benoît Mandelbrot (died 2010),
Polish -born
French American
mathematician , originator of
fractal
geometry
December 30 –
Yvonne Brill (died
2013 ), Canadian scientist best known for her work developing rocket and jet propulsion technologies
Deaths
References
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Edwin Hubble, the discoverer of the big bang universe . Cambridge University Press. p. 34.
ISBN
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ISBN
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"Artificial Wombs Are Coming, but the Controversy Is Already Here" . Motherboard . 4 August 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014 .
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ISBN
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ISBN
978-1-78023-375-8 .
^ Banach, Stefan; Tarski, Alfred (1924).
"Sur la décomposition des ensembles de points en parties respectivement congruentes" (PDF) .
Fundamenta Mathematicae . 6 : 244–277.
doi :
10.4064/fm-6-1-244-277 .
^
Gamow, George (1947).
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"Hans Berger (1873-1941), Richard Caton (1842-1926) and electroencephalography" . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry . 74 (1): 9.
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^
"Band-Aid Brand: A History of Innovation" . September 28, 2023.
^
Dart, Raymond A. (February 1925).
"Australopithecus africanus : The Man-Ape of South Africa" (PDF) .
Nature . 115 (2884): 195–99.
Bibcode :
1925Natur.115..195D .
doi :
10.1038/115195a0 .
^ Stoner, E. C. (1924). "The distribution of electrons among atomic levels".
Philosophical Magazine . 6th ser. 48 (286): 719–736.
doi :
10.1080/14786442408634535 .
^
"Louis de Broglie: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929" . Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922–1941 . Elsevier. 1965. Retrieved 2007-02-28 .
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