1935 in science

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The year 1935 in science and technology had many significant events, including those listed below.

Contents 1 Geology 2 Physics 3 Medicine 4 Awards 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Geology

• Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg develop the Richter magnitude scale for quantifying earthquakes.

[edit] Physics

• January 8 - A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.

[edit] Medicine

• After I.G. Farben patents it, Gerhard Domagk publishes his discovery of Prontosil, the first modern antibiotic, a Sulfonamide.

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - James Chadwick
  • Chemistry - Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie
  • Medicine - Hans Spemann

[edit] Births

• February 15 - Roger B. Chaffee (d. 1967), astronaut.
• June 25 - Charles Sheffield (d. 2002), science fiction author and physicist.
• August 3 - Georgi Shonin (d. 1997), cosmonaut.
• September 11 - Gherman Titov (d. 2000), cosmonaut.

[edit] Deaths

• December 4 - Charles Robert Richet (d. 1935), Nobel Prize winner.
• November 6 - Henry Fairfield Osborn (b. 1857), paleontologist.