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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.
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 , American physician-scientist and immunologist.
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.
^ 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 .