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Overview of the events of 1928 in science
The year 1928 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
April – 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. January 4 – Henry T. Lynch (died 2019 ), American cancer geneticist.
January 12 – Gerald Russell (died 2018 ), British psychiatrist .
January 14 – Hans Kornberg (died 2019), German-English biochemist.[ 22]
February 14 – Sergey Kapitsa (died 2018 ), Russian physicist and demographer.
February 18 – John Ostrom (died 2005 ), American paleontologist .
March 8 – Gerald Bull (killed 1990 ), Canadian ballistics engineer .
March 14 – Frank Borman (died 2023 ), American astronaut.
March 25 – Jim Lovell , American astronaut.
March 28 – Alexander Grothendieck (died 2014 ), German-born French mathematician , pioneer of modern algebraic geometry .
April 6 – James Watson , American geneticist .
April 20 – Charles David Keeling (died 2005 ), American atmospheric chemist , geochemist and oceanographer .
April 29 – Heinz Wolff (died 2017 ), German-born British bioengineer and science populariser.
May 2 – Hans Trass (died 2017), Estonian ecologist and botanist.
May 4 – Bill Mollison (died 2016 ), Australian biologist, pioneer of permaculture .
May 23 – Jean E. Sammet (died 2017 ), American computer programmer.
May 26 – Jack Kevorkian (died 2011 ), American pathologist , advocate of euthanasia .
June 2 – Wu Xinzhi (died 2021 ), Chinese paleoanthropologist .
June 13 – John Forbes Nash, Jr. (died 2015 ), American mathematician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate.
June 25 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (died 2017), Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.[ 23]
July 6 – Bernard Malgrange (died 2024 ), French mathematician.
July 12 – Elias James Corey , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.[ 24]
July 23 – Vera Rubin , née Cooper (died 2016), American astronomer .
August 25 – Herbert Kroemer , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.[ 25]
September 7 – Donald Henderson (died 2016), American epidemiologist .
October 7 – Lorna Wing , née Tolchard (died 2014), English psychiatrist.
October 25 – Peter Naur (died 2016), Danish data scientist.
October 26 – Erich Kukk (died 2017 ), Estonian phycologist and conservationist.
October 30 – Daniel Nathans (died 1999 ), American microbiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate.[ 26]
November 22 – Bill Chaloner (died 2016), English palaeobotanist .
November 28 – Tove Birkelund (died 1986), Danish historical geologist.
December 26 – Martin Cooper , American "father of the mobile phone ".
^ Griffith, Fred. (January 1928). "The Significance of Pneumococcal Types" . Journal of Hygiene . 27 (2). Cambridge University Press: 113–159. doi :10.1017/S0022172400031879 . JSTOR 4626734 . PMC 2167760 PMID 20474956 . ^ Downie, A. W. (1972). "Pneumococcal transformation – a backward view: Fourth Griffith Memorial Lecture" (PDF) . Journal of General Microbiology 73 (1): 1–11. doi :10.1099/00221287-73-1-1 PMID 4143929 . Retrieved 2011-11-30 . ^ Dubey, R. C. (1999). Text book of Microbiology . New Delhi: S. Chand & Company Ltd. p. 579. ISBN 9788121926201 ^ "Culture shock will highlight penicillin discovery" (PDF) (Press release). London: Royal Society of Chemistry. 2003-09-02. Retrieved 2011-11-30 .^ Duchesne, E. (2013) [1897]. Antagonism between molds and bacteria {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )^ Pearl, Raymond (1928). The Rate of Living, Being an Account of Some Experimental Studies on the Biology of Life Duration . New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ^ Hendricks, Vincent; et al., eds. (2004). First-order logic revisited . Logische Philosophie, 12. Berlin: Logos Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8325-0475-5 ^ Martland, H. S. (1928). "Punch Drunk". Journal of the American Medical Association 91 (15): 1103–1107. doi :10.1001/jama.1928.02700150029009 . ^ Raman, C. V. (1928). "A new radiation" . Indian Journal of Physics . 2 : 387–398. Retrieved 2013-04-14 . ^ Dirac, P. A. M. (1928-02-01). "The Quantum Theory of the Electron" . Proceedings of the Royal Society A 117 (778): 610–624. Bibcode :1928RSPSA.117..610D . doi :10.1098/rspa.1928.0023 ^ Dirac, Paul A. M. (1933-12-12). "Theory of Electrons and Positrons" . The Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-22 . ^ "Transatlantic Television in 1928" . Baird Television . Retrieved 2015-09-29 .The New York Times ^ Improvements in television apparatus Archived 2012-02-20.^ The Hutchinson Factfinder . Helicon. 1999. ISBN 978-1-85986-000-7 ^ No. 320084.
^ "Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906-1971)" . The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco . Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-22 .^ Farnsworth, Elma G. (1989). Distant Vision: Romance & Discovery on an Invisible Frontier 108 . ISBN 978-0-9623276-0-5 ^ Chen, Wai-Fah; Duan, Lian (2013). Handbook of International Bridge Engineering . CRC Press. pp. 600–01. ISBN 978-1-4398-1029-3 ^ Pescatore, Jean-Pierre; Borgeot, Jean-Henri (2010). "Chapter 10: Welding Steel Structures". In Blondeau, Regis (ed.). Metallurgy and mechanics of welding: processes and industrial application . John Wiley & Sons. p. 359. ISBN 9780470393895 ^ Wojdyga, Piotr (2009). "Mosty firmy K. Rudzki i S-ka" [Bridges of K. Rudzki and Co.]. Rocznik Mińsko Mazowiecki . 2009 (17): 63–74. ISSN 1232-633X . Archived from the original (pdf) on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-07 . ^ "Various works by (and about) Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, which are very difficult to obtain elsewhere" . Retrieved 2012-05-31 .^ Obituaries, Telegraph (18 December 2019). "Professor Sir Hans Kornberg, German-born biochemist and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge who did pioneering research into how bacteria work – obituary" . The Telegraph . ^ Kenneth Chang (2 Apr 2017). "Alexei Abrikosov, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Dies at 88" . The New York Times . Retrieved 22 May 2019 . ^ Allerson, Charles R. (30 October 1993). "Elias J. Corey". In James, Laylin K. (ed.). Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, 1901-1992 ISBN 978-0-8412-2690-6 ^ Herbert Kroemer (9 May 2008). Selected Works Of Professor Herbert Kroemer ISBN 978-981-4474-68-9 ^ United States Congress (1979). Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1980: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session ^ Grundmann, Siegfried (2005). The Einstein dossiers : science and politics--Einstein's Berlin period with an appendix on Einstein's FBI file . Berlin New York: Springer. p. 238. ISBN 9783540311041 ^ "Notice no. 19800035/241/31985" . Base Léonore ^ Daintith, John (1994). Biographical encyclopedia of scientists . Bristol Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Pub. p. 195. ISBN 9780750302876 ^ Bormann, P. (Ed.). (2012). Dedication to the 150th birthday of Emil Wiechert (1861-1928). In P. Bormann (Ed.), New Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice 2 (NMSOP 2) (pp. 1-2). Potsdam: Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ.
^ "Obituary Notices: Fellows:- Maunder, Edward Walter" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 89 : 313. February 1929. Bibcode :1929MNRAS..89..313. . doi :10.1093/mnras/89.4.313 ^ "Theodore W. Richards - Facts" . NobelPrize.org . Retrieved August 22, 2021 .^ "Wilhelm Wien - Facts" . NobelPrize.org . Retrieved 22 August 2021 .
