Overview of the events of 1952 in science
The year 1952 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
February 2 – Ralph Merkle , American computer scientist, co-inventor of public-key cryptography .
February 15 – Frances Ashcroft , English geneticist .
February 19 – Marcia McNutt , American geophysicist , science editor, and president of the National Academy of Sciences .
February 28 – Simon P. Norton (died 2019 ), English mathematician , co-discoverer of 'monstrous moonshine '.
March 24 – Reinhard Genzel , German astrophysicist , Nobel Prize in Physics , co-discovererer of black holes .
July 15 – Ann Dowling , English mechanical engineer.
August 14 – Peter Fonagy , Hungarian-born British psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist.
August 25 – Charles M. Rice , American virologist , Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , co-discovererer of the hepatitis C virus .
Venki Ramakrishnan , Indian-born American-British structural biologist.
March 5 – Sir Charles Sherrington (born 1857 ), English neurophysiologist and bacteriologist , Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932.
April 2 – Bernard Lyot (born 1897 ), French astronomer.
April 8 – Tadeusz Estreicher (born 1871 ), Polish chemist.
June 17 – Jack Parsons (born 1914 ), American rocket engineer and occultist.
September 5 – Hermann Stieve (born 1886 ), German anatomist and histologist .
November 2 – Chaim Weizmann (born 1874 ), Belarusian-born chemist , first President of Israel .
November 24 – André Rochon-Duvigneaud (born 1863 ), French ophthalmologist .
December 4 – Karen Horney (born 1885 ), German American psychoanalyst .
December 19 – Colonel Sir Charles Arden-Close (born 1865 ), British cartographer .
^ Turing, A. M. (14 August 1952). "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 237 (641): 37–72. Bibcode :1952RSPTB.237...37T . doi :10.1098/rstb.1952.0012 . JSTOR 92463 . Submitted November 1951.
^ "Control Mechanism For Biological Pattern Formation Decoded". ScienceDaily . 30 November 2006.
^ "Turing's Last, Lost Work" . Swintons. Archived from the original on 23 August 2003. Retrieved 28 November 2011 . ()
^ Hodgkin, A. L.; Huxley, A. F. (1952). "A Quantitative Description of Membrane Current and its Application to Conduction and Excitation in Nerve" . The Journal of Physiology . 117 (4): 500–544. doi :10.1113/jphysiol.1952.sp004764 . PMC 1392413 . PMID 12991237 .
^ Hershey, A. D.; Chase, Martha (1952). "Independent Functions of Viral Protein and Nucleic Acid in Growth of Bacteriophage" . The Journal of General Physiology . 36 (1): 39–56. doi :10.1085/jgp.36.1.39 . PMC 2147348 . PMID 12981234 .
^ Gard, S.; von Magnus, P.; Svedmyr, A.; Birch-Andersen, A. (1952). "Studies on the sedimentation of influenza virus". Archiv für die gesamte Virusforschung . 4 (5): 591–611. doi :10.1007/BF01242026 . PMID 14953289 . S2CID 21838623 .
^ Gross, J.; Pitt-Rivers, R. (1952). "The Identification of 3:5:3'-L-Triiodothyronine in Human Plasma". The Lancet . 259 (6705): 439–441. doi :10.1016/S0140-6736(52)91952-1 . PMID 14898765 .
^ Rice, D (1973). Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis). In Seals. Proceedings of working meeting of seal specialists on threatened and depleted seals of the world, held under the auspices of the Survival Service Commission of the IUCN, 18–19 August . Ontario, Canada. Morges, Switzerland: Univ. Guelph, IUCN Publ, Suppl. paper.
^ Радушкевич, Л. В. (1952). О Структуре Углерода, Образующегося При Термическом Разложении Окиси Углерода На Железном Контакте . Журнал Физической Химии (in Russian). 26 : 88–95.
^ Knuth, Donald E.; Pardo, Luis Trabb. "Early development of programming languages". Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology . 7 : 419–493.
^ Nash, J. F. (1952). "Real algebraic manifolds". Annals of Mathematics . 56 (3): 405–21. doi :10.2307/1969649 . JSTOR 1969649 . MR 0050928 . .
^ International Congress of Mathematicians (1952), Proceedings , vol. 2, Providence: American Mathematical Society, pp. 516–17
^ Bradley, Ralph Allan; Terry, Milton E. (1952). "Rank Analysis of Incomplete Block Designs: I. The Method of Paired Comparisons". Biometrika . 39 (3/4): 324. doi :10.2307/2334029 . JSTOR 2334029 .
^ "The First Mechanical Heart Pump" . GeneralMotors.com. Archived from the original on July 11, 2011. Retrieved 2009-12-29 .
^ Biggs, R.; Douglas, A. S.; MacFarlane, R. G.; Dacie, J. V.; Pitney, W. R.; Merskey, C.; O'Brien, J. R. (1952). "Christmas disease: a condition previously mistaken for haemophilia" . British Medical Journal . 2 (4799): 1378–82. doi :10.1136/bmj.2.4799.1378 . PMC 2022306 . PMID 12997790 .
^ Apgar, Virginia (1953). "A proposal for a new method of evaluation of the newborn infant" . Current Researches in Anesthesia & Analgesia . 32 (4): 260–267. doi :10.1213/00000539-195301000-00041 . PMID 13083014 . Archived from the original on 2012-11-30. Retrieved 2013-12-16 .
^ Finster, M.; Wood, M. (May 2005). "The Apgar score has survived the test of time" . Anesthesiology . 102 (4): 855–857. doi :10.1097/00000542-200504000-00022 . PMID 15791116 . S2CID 19697516 .
^ Healy, David (1996). The Psychopharmacologists: Interviews . London: Chapman and Hall. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-86036-008-4 .
^ "Hydrogen Bomb" . The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 15 January 2010. Retrieved 2009-12-29 .
^ Ghiorso, Albert (2003). "Einsteinium and Fermium" . Chemical & Engineering News . 81 (36): 174–175. doi :10.1021/cen-v081n036.p174 . Retrieved 2012-02-08 .
^ The Hutchinson Factfinder . Helicon. 1999. ISBN 978-1-85986-000-7 .
^ Woodland, Norman J.; Bernard, Silver. "Classifying Apparatus And Method" . U.S. Patent 2,612,994.
^ Kleinman, Zoe (2012-10-07). "Barcode birthday: 60 years since patent" . BBC News . Retrieved 2013-06-17 .