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Overview of the events of 1940 in science
The year 1940 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Computer science
Exploration
Mathematics
Medicine
Metallurgy
Physics
Technology
Other events
Births
January 8
April 1 –
Wangari Maathai , née Muta (died
2011 ),
Kenyan
biologist and winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize .
April 18 –
Joseph L. Goldstein , American
biochemist and winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
May 17 –
Alan Kay , American computer scientist and winner of the
Turing Award .
June 1 –
Kip Thorne , American gravitational physicist and winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics .
June 5 –
Dickson Despommier , American
microbiologist ,
ecologist and Professor of
Public health in Environmental Health Sciences at
Columbia University .
June 22 –
Daniel Quillen (died 2011), American
mathematician .
July 15 –
Stephen Jacobsen (died
2016 ), American
bioengineer and
roboticist .
July 30 –
Clive Sinclair (died
2021 ), English inventor.
September 12 –
Joachim Frank , German-born
biophysicist and winner of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
September 26 –
Louise Johnson (died
2012 ), British
biochemist and protein
crystallographer .
November 20 –
Arieh Warshel ,
Israeli -born winner of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
November 26 –
Enrico Bombieri , Italian-born mathematician.
Judith Pipher , American
astrophysicist .
December 24 –
Anthony Fauci -born Doctor of Medicine, lord of science, American
Deaths
March 9 –
Robert Gunther (born
1869 ), English historian of science.
April 13 –
Pierre Marie (born
1853 ), French
neurologist .
April 29 –
Edgar Buckingham (born
1867 ), American physicist.
June 17 –
Arthur Harden (born
1865 ), English
biochemist and Nobel laureate in chemistry.
June 21 –
John T. Thompson (born
1860 ), American inventor.
July 31 –
Louis Charles Christopher Krieger (born
1873 ), American
mycologist .
August 30 –
J. J. Thomson (born
1856 ), English physicist and Nobel laureate in physics.
November 8 –
Arthur Vierendeel (born
1852 ),
Belgian
civil engineer .
November 17 –
Raymond Pearl (born
1879 ), American
biologist .
December 16 –
Eugène Dubois (born
1858 ),
Dutch
paleoanthropologist .
December 17 –
Alicia Boole Stott (born
1860 )
British mathematician.
References
^ Drews, Jürgen (March 2000). "Drug Discovery: a Historical Perspective".
Science . 287 (5460): 1960–4.
Bibcode :
2000Sci...287.1960D .
doi :
10.1126/science.287.5460.1960 .
PMID
10720314 .
S2CID
1827304 .
^ Robertson, Patrick (1974). The Shell Book of Firsts . London: Ebury Press. p. 124.
^ Waksman, S. A.; Woodruff, H. B. (1940). "Bacteriostatic and bacteriocidal substances produced by soil actinomycetes".
Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine . 45 : 609–614.
doi :
10.3181/00379727-45-11768 .
S2CID
84774334 .
^ Kamen, Martin D. (1963). "Early History of Carbon-14: Discovery of this supremely important tracer was expected in the physical sense but not in the chemical sense".
Science . 140 (3567): 584–590.
Bibcode :
1963Sci...140..584K .
doi :
10.1126/science.140.3567.584 .
JSTOR
1710512 .
PMID
17737092 .
^ 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 .
^ Corson, D. R.; MacKenzie, K. R.; Segrè, E. (1940). "Artificially Radioactive Element 85".
Physical Review . 58 (8): 672–678.
Bibcode :
1940PhRv...58..672C .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRev.58.672 .
^ Mcmillan, Edwin; Abelson, Philip Hauge (1940).
"Radioactive Element 93" . Physical Review . 57 (12): 1185–6.
Bibcode :
1940PhRv...57.1185M .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRev.57.1185.2 .
^
Hammond, George S. (1997).
"Physical organic chemistry after 50 years: It has changed, but is it still there?" (PDF) .
Pure and Applied Chemistry . 69 (9).
IUPAC : 1919–22.
doi :
10.1351/pac199769091919 .
S2CID
53723796 . Retrieved 2014-01-22 .
^ Whitehead, Roger (2004).
"Widdowson, Elsie May (1906–2000)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/74313 . Retrieved 2011-08-10 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
US patent 2668661 , "Complex Computer", issued 1954-02-09, assigned to
American Telephone & Telegraph
^
Smith, Michael (2007). Station X: the Codebreakers of Bletchley Park . Pan Grand Strategy Series (rev. ed.). London: Pan Macmillan.
ISBN
978-0-330-41929-1 .
^ Ritchie, David (1986). "George Stibitz and the Bell Computers".
The Computer Pioneers . New York: Simon and Schuster. p.
39 .
ISBN
067152397X .
^ Metropolis, Nicholas (2014).
History of Computing in the Twentieth Century . Elsevier. p. 481.
ISBN
9781483296685 .
^ Dalakov, Georgi.
"Relay computers of George Stibitz" . History of Computers: Hardware, Software, Internet . Retrieved 2015-03-30 .
^
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: 1940 in science
^
Siple, Paul (1963).
"Obituary: Carl R. Eklund, 1909-1962" (PDF) .
Arctic . 16 (2). Arctic Institute of North America: 147–148.
doi :
10.14430/arctic3531 . Retrieved 2013-01-19 .
^ Levi, F. W. (1942). Finite Geometrical Systems . University of Calcutta.
MR
0006834 .
^
Gowing, Margaret (1964). Britain and Atomic Energy, 1935–1945 . London: Macmillan Publishing. pp. 40–43.
OCLC
3195209 .
^ Auto Editors of Consumer Guide.
"1906-1939 Jeep: Jeep Makes History" . HowStuffWorks . Archived from
the original on 2012-05-01. Retrieved 2012-05-31 .