1928 in science

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The year 1928 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Contents 1 Archaeology 2 Biology 3 Medicine 4 Awards 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Archaeology

• The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered.

[edit] Biology

• Frederick Griffith conducts Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving existence of DNA.
• Alexander Fleming accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic Penicillin, forgotten since Ernest Duchesne's original discovery in 1896.

[edit] Medicine

• October 12 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Owen Willans Richardson
  • Chemistry - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
  • Medicine - Charles Jules Henri Nicolle

[edit] Births

• March 8 - Gerald Bull (d. 1990), engineer.
• April 6 - James D. Watson, geneticist.
• June 28 - Sir Harold Evans editor.

[edit] Deaths

• February 4 - Hendrik Lorentz (b. 1853), Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
• May 21 - Hideyo Noguchi (b. 1876), bacteriologist.
• August 30 - Wilhelm Wien (b. 1864), physicist.