Overview of the events of 1932 in science
The year 1932 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space sciences [ edit ]
January 16 – Dian Fossey (murdered 1985 ), American primatologist .
February 7 – Alfred Worden (died 2020 ), American astronaut .
February 10 – Robert Taylor (died 2017 ), American computer scientist.
March 10 – Udupi Ramachandra Rao (died 2017), Indian space scientist .
March 14 – Joseph Bryan Nelson (died 2015 ), British ornithologist .
March 15 – Alan Bean (died 2018 ), American astronaut.
March 21 – Walter Gilbert , American chemist and Nobel laureate
March 24 – Lodewijk van den Berg (died 2022 ), Dutch-born American chemical engineer and astronaut
April 26 – Michael Smith (died 2000 ), English-born biochemist , recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
May 22 – Robert Spitzer (died 2015), American psychiatrist .
July 10 – Ioan Pușcaș (died 2015), Romanian gastroenterologist.
July 31 – John Searle , American philosopher of the mind and language.
August 4 – Frances E. Allen (died 2020), American computer scientist, Turing Award winner.
August 15 – Robert L. Forward (died 2002 ), American science fiction author and physicist .
August 18 – Luc Montagnier (died 2022 ), French virologist and joint recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
September 18 – Nikolai Rukavishnikov (died 2002), Russian cosmonaut .
September 29 – Rainer Weiss , German-born American physicist, joint recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for detection of gravitational waves .
October 1 – Biswa Ranjan Nag (died 2004 ), Indian physicist.
October 3 – Terence English , South African -born cardiac surgeon .
October 13 – John G. Thompson , American mathematician .
November 6 – François Englert , Belgian theoretical physicist , joint recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of the Higgs mechanism .
December 15 – John Meurig Thomas (died 2020 ), Welsh physical chemist.
February 29 – George Claridge Druce (born 1850 ), English botanist .
March 14 – George Eastman (born 1854 ), American photography pioneer (suicide).
April 3 – Wilhelm Ostwald (born 1853 ), Baltic German chemist .
April 20 – Giuseppe Peano (born 1858 ), Italian mathematician .
May 29 – Cuthbert Christy (born 1863 ), English medical investigator, zoologist and explorer.
June 21 – Major Taylor (born 1878 ), African American racing cyclist.
July 9 – King Camp Gillette (born 1855 ), American inventor .
July 14 – Fran Jesenko (born 1875 ), Slovene botanist and plant geneticist .
July 22 – Reginald Fessenden (born 1866 ), Canadian American radio broadcasting pioneer.
August 9 – John Charles Fields (born 1863), Canadian mathematician.
September 16 – Sir Ronald Ross (born 1857 ), British physiologist .
November 12 – Sir Dugald Clerk (born 1854 ), Scottish-born mechanical engineer .
^ Öpik, E. (October 1932). "Note on Stellar Perturbations of Nearly Parabolic Orbits". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . 67 (6): 169–183. Bibcode :1932PAAAS..67..169O . doi :10.2307/20022899 . JSTOR 20022899 .
^ Benirschke, K. (2004). "The Man Who Invented the Chromosome: A Life of Cyril Darlington" . Journal of Heredity . 95 (6): 541–542. doi :10.1093/jhered/esh080 .
^ "Braggite" . Mindat.org. Retrieved 2011-08-18 .
^ "Braggite" (PDF) . Handbook of Mineralogy . Mineral Data Publishing. 2001–2005. Retrieved 2011-08-18 .
^ von Neumann, John (1932). "Proof of the Quasi-ergodic Hypothesis" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 18 (1): 70–82. Bibcode :1932PNAS...18...70N . doi :10.1073/pnas.18.1.70 . PMC 1076162 . PMID 16577432 .
^ von Neumann, John (1932). "Physical Applications of the Ergodic Hypothesis" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 18 (3): 263–266. Bibcode :1932PNAS...18..263N . doi :10.1073/pnas.18.3.263 . JSTOR 86260 . PMC 1076204 . PMID 16587674 .
^ Halmos, Paul R. (1958). "Von Neumann on Measure and Ergodic Theory" (PDF) . Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society . 64 (3): 86–94. doi :10.1090/s0002-9904-1958-10203-7 . if von Neumann had never done anything else, they would have been sufficient to guarantee him mathematical immortality.
^ Kahn, David (1996). The Codebreakers (2nd ed.). p. 974.
^ Kozaczuk, Władysław (1984). Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher was Broken, and how it was Read by the Allies in World War Two . Frederick, Md: University Publications of America. pp. 234–236. ISBN 978-0-89093-547-7 .
^ Cushing, Harvey (1932). "The basophil adenomas of the pituitary body and their clinical manifestations (pituitary basophilism)". Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital . 50 : 137–95. Reprinted in Cushing, Harvey (April 1969). "The basophil adenomas of the pituitary body" . Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England . 44 (4): 180–1. PMC 2387613 . PMID 19310569 .
^ "Dr. Cushing Dead; Brain Surgeon, 70. A Pioneer Who Won Fame as Founder of New School of Neuro-Surgery. Discovered Malady Affecting Pituitary Gland. Was Noted Teacher and Author" . The New York Times . 8 October 1939. Retrieved 2010-03-21 .
^ Crohn, B. B.; Ginzburg, L.; Oppenheimer, G. D. (2000). "Regional ileitis: a pathologic and clinical entity, 1932". Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine . 67 (3): 263–8. PMID 10828911 .
^ Schäfer, P. K.; Sauerbruch, T. (2004). "Rudolf Schindler (1888–1968) – 'Vater' der Gastroskopie". Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie . 42 (6): 550–6. doi :10.1055/s-2004-813178 . PMID 15190453 . [permanent dead link ]
^ "The Tuskegee Timeline" . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2011-09-30 .
^ Harper, Peter S. (2008). A Short History of Medical Genetics . Oxford University Press. p. 281. ISBN 978-0-19-518750-2 .
^ Lesch, J. E. (2007). "Prontosil". The First Miracle Drugs: How the Sulfa Drugs Transformed Medicine . New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 51–61. ISBN 978-0-19-518775-5 .
^ "Operations News" . Gakona HAARPoon . Alaska. 2017-02-19. Retrieved 2022-11-16 .
^ Chadwick, J. (September 1932). "Possible Existence of a Neutron" . Nature . 129 (3252): 312. Bibcode :1932Natur.129Q.312C . doi :10.1038/129312a0 .
^ Chadwick, J. (1932). "The Existence of the Neutron" . Proceedings of the Royal Society . A136 (830): 692–708. Bibcode :1932RSPSA.136..692C . doi :10.1098/rspa.1932.0112 .
^ Heisenberg, W. (1932). "Über den Bau der Atomkerne". Zeitschrift für Physik . 77 (1–2): 1–11. Bibcode :1932ZPhy...77....1H . doi :10.1007/BF01342433 . S2CID 186218053 .
^ Anderson, Carl D. (1932). "The Apparent Existence of Easily Deflectable Positives". Science . 76 (1967): 238–9. Bibcode :1932Sci....76..238A . doi :10.1126/science.76.1967.238 . JSTOR 1658257 . PMID 17731542 .
^ Kennedy, Roy J.; Thorndike, Edward M. (1932). "Experimental Establishment of the Relativity of Time". Physical Review . 42 (3): 400–418. Bibcode :1932PhRv...42..400K . doi :10.1103/PhysRev.42.400 .