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30 Nov 1927
![]() American |
American (anthropology) American anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa, "a psychological study of primitive youth for Western civilization". |
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30 Nov 1927
![]() Canaanite |
Canaanite (archaeology) The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered. |
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30 Nov 1927
![]() Florian Cajori |
Florian Cajori (history of science) Florian Cajori begins publication of A History of Mathematical Notations. |
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30 Nov 1927
![]() David Hilbert |
David Hilbert (mathematics) David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann publish Grundzüge der theoretischen Logik, a pioneering elementary text in first-order logic stating the Entscheidungsproblem. |
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30 Nov 1927
![]() John von Neumann |
John von Neumann (mathematics) John von Neumann publishes Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele, a text in game theory. |
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30 Nov 1927
![]() Harrison Stanford Martland |
Harrison Stanford Martland (medicine) Dementia pugilistica is first described by forensic pathologist Dr. Harrison Stanford Martland, chief medical examiner of Essex County, New Jersey. |
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30 Nov 1927
![]() Paul Dirac |
Paul Dirac (physics) Paul Dirac proposes the Dirac equation as a relativistic equation of motion for the wavefunction of the electron, leading him to predict the existence of the positron, the electron's antiparticle. |
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30 Nov 1927
![]() Arthur Eddington |
Arthur Eddington (publications) Arthur Eddington publishes the popular text The Nature of the Physical World in the United Kingdom, including a statement of the infinite monkey theorem. |
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01 Jan 1928
![]() Frederick Griffith |
Frederick Griffith (biology) Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. |
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04 Jan 1928
![]() Henry T. Lynch |
birth Henry T. Lynch Henry T. Lynch, American cancer geneticist. |
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17 Jan 1928
![]() Photomaton |
Photomaton In 1928, the first U.S. patent for a fully automatic photographic film developing machine was issued to its inventor, Anatol M. Josepho. It was an apparatus for developing film strips. The first model of the Photomaton was constructed in a loft building on 125th Street, New York City. It is said the inventor received one million dollars for the invention. The first Photomaton studio was opened to the public at 1659 Broadway, New York City, in Sep 1926. |
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17 Jan 1928
![]() William Corless Mills |
death William Corless Mills Died 17 Jan 1928 at age 68 (born 2 Jan 1860). American museum curator who excavated Indian remains in Ohio, especially the Adena Mound (1901), a large earthen Indian burial ground near Chillicothe. Dating from about 50 BC, this site now represents the type site for the study of the North American Adena culture and period. Mills also made the definitive study (publ.1921) of Ohio's Flint Ridge “Great Indian Quarry” for the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society of which he was curator and librarian 1898-1928. |
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04 Feb 1928
![]() Hendrik Lorentz |
death Hendrik Lorentz Hendrik Lorentz (born 1853), Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. |
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28 Feb 1928
![]() C. V. Raman |
C. V. Raman (physics) C. V. Raman and K. S. Krishnan discover Raman scattering in liquids. |
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08 Mar 1928
![]() Gerald Bull |
birth Gerald Bull Gerald Bull (killed 1990), Canadian ballistics engineer. |
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14 Mar 1928
![]() Conrad Hubert |
death Conrad Hubert Died 14 Mar 1928 at age 71 (born 15 Apr 1856). (Akiba Horowitz) After emigrating from Russia to the U.S., he later founded the Everready Flashlight Co. He first developed electric novelties after receiving rights to the battery-powered lighted flowerpots invented by Joshua L. Cowen, and electrically illuminated scarf pins. In Mar 1898, he founded the American Electrical Novelty and Manufacturing Company to make bicycle lights. He then introduced the first tubular Flash Light (now known as a flashlight in the U.S. and a torch in Britain) based on the patent he bought from inventor David Misell (U.S. No 617,592 issued 10 Jan 1899). From his business activities, he became a millionaire. |
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19 Mar 1928
![]() David Ferrier |
death David Ferrier David Ferrier (born 1843), neurologist. |
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21 Mar 1928
![]() E. Walter Maunder |
death E. Walter Maunder E. Walter Maunder (born 1851), astronomer. |
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28 Mar 1928
![]() Alexander Grothendieck |
birth Alexander Grothendieck Alexander Grothendieck (died 2014), German-born French mathematician, pioneer of modern algebraic geometry. |
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01 Apr 1928
![]() Leslie Comrie |
Leslie Comrie (computer science) Leslie Comrie publishes an article "On the Construction of Tables by Interpolation", describing the use of punched card equipment for interpolating tables of data, and becomes the first to use such equipment for scientific calculations, using Fourier synthesis to compute the principal terms in the motion of the Moon for 1935–2000. |
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06 Apr 1928
![]() James Watson |
birth James Watson James Watson, American geneticist. |
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20 Apr 1928
![]() Charles David Keeling |
birth Charles David Keeling Charles David Keeling (died 2005), American atmospheric chemist, geochemist and oceanograper. |
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25 Apr 1928
![]() Floyd Bennett |
death Floyd Bennett Died 25 Apr 1928 at age 37 (born 25 Oct 1890). American aviator who piloted the explorer Richard E. Byrd on the first successful flight over the North Pole on 9 May 1926, in a three-engine Fokker monoplane, Josephine Ford. They flew 1,360 miles from King's Bay, Spitzbergen, to the Pole and back in 15-1/2 hours. During his aviation duty in the Navy Bennett had met Byrd (1925) as his commander on the Donald B. MacMillan expedition to northwestern Greenland. Byrd realized that Bennett was more than a good pilot, he was fearless, and one of the finest practical men in the Navy for handling an airplane's temperamental mechanisms. Together, they planned the North Pole flight. For his share in the achievement Bennett received the Congressional Medal of Honor. |
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21 May 1928
![]() Hideyo Noguchi |
death Hideyo Noguchi Hideyo Noguchi (born 1876), bacteriologist. |
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26 May 1928
![]() Jack Kevorkian |
birth Jack Kevorkian Jack Kevorkian (died 2011), American pathologist, advocate of euthanasia. |
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11 Jun 1928
![]() Hungarian |
Hungarian (technology) Hungarian inventor Kálmán Tihanyi files patents in Germany, the United Kingdom and France for a cathode ray television transmission system. |
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13 Jun 1928
![]() John Forbes Nash, Jr. |
birth John Forbes Nash, Jr. John Forbes Nash, Jr. (died 2015), American mathematician, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. |
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28 Jun 1928
![]() Harold Evans |
birth Harold Evans Harold Evans, English editor. |
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07 Jul 1928
![]() Chillicothe, Missouri |
Chillicothe, Missouri (technology) The first machine-sliced and machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe, Missouri, using Otto Frederick Rohwedder's technology. |
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30 Aug 1928
![]() Wilhelm Wien |
death Wilhelm Wien Wilhelm Wien (born 1864), physicist. |
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03 Sep 1928
![]() Alexander Fleming |
Alexander Fleming (biology) Alexander Fleming, at St Mary's Hospital, London, accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic Penicillin, forgotten since Ernest Duchesne's original discovery in 1896. |
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03 Sep 1928
![]() Philo Farnsworth |
Philo Farnsworth (technology) Philo Farnsworth demonstrates to the Press the world's first working all-electronic television system, employing electronic scanning in both the pickup and display devices. |
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12 Oct 1928
![]() iron lung |
iron lung (medicine) An 'iron lung' medical ventilator designed by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw, Jr., is used for the first time, at Boston Children's Hospital in the United States for treatment of poliomyelitis. |
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01 Dec 1928
![]() Maurzyce Bridge |
Maurzyce Bridge (technology) Completion of the Maurzyce Bridge near Łowicz in central Poland, the world's first road bridge of wholly welded construction, designed by Stefan Bryła. |