1930 in science

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The year 1930 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy and space exploration

February 18 – Pluto is identified by Clyde Tombaugh from photographs taken during January at the Lowell Observatory.
Bernhard Schmidt invents the Schmidt Camera.^[1]

January 30 – Pavel Molchanov launches a radiosonde from Pavlovsk in the Soviet Union.
Sydney Chapman explains the ozone-oxygen cycle, the process by which ozone is continually regenerated in Earth's stratosphere.

March 5 – Danish painter Einar Wegener begins to undergo sexual reassignment surgery in Germany and takes the name Lili Elbe.
November 25 – Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary in England, achieves the first recorded cure (of an eye infection) using penicillin.^[5]
DPT vaccine (against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) is first used.

Israel Aharoni collects golden hamsters near Aleppo from which all modern domesticated specimens will be bred.^[7]

January 9 – Jacob T. Schwartz (died 2009), American mathematician, and professor of computer science at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
January 13 – Harold Furth (died 2002), Austrian-born expert in plasma physics and nuclear fusion.
January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, astronaut, lunar module pilot on Apollo 11.
February 23 – Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician.
February 28 – Leon Cooper, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner.
March 15 – Martin Karplus, Austrian-born theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner.
May 9 – Susan Leeman, American neuroendocrinologist.
May 11 – Edsger W. Dijkstra (died 2002), Dutch computer scientist.
June 2 – Pete Conrad (died 1999), astronaut.
June 22 – Yuri Artyukhin (died 1998), cosmonaut.
August 5 – Neil Armstrong (died 2012), astronaut, first person to walk on the Moon.
August 7 – Joe Farman (died 2013), British geophysicist working for the British Antarctic Survey.
October 10 – Yves Chauvin (died 2015), Belgian-born chemist and Nobel Prize winner.
October 17 – Dr. Robert Atkins (died 2003), American nutritionist.
November 14 – Ed White (died in training accident 1967), astronaut.

January 19 – Frank P. Ramsey (born 1903), English mathematician (jaundice).
August 6 – Joseph Le Bel (born 1847), French chemist.
August 15 – Florian Cajori (born 1859), Swiss-born American historian of mathematics.
August 18 – Gabrielle Howard (born 1876), British plant physiologist.
October 15 – E. H. "Chinese" Wilson (born 1876), English plant collector.
September 1 – Peeter Põld (born 1878), Estonian politician and pedagogical scientist.
November 5 – Christiaan Eijkman (born 1858), Dutch physiologist.

↑ "Bernhard Schmidt". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on May 24, 2008.
↑ Smith, John K. (1985). "The Ten-Year Invention: Neoprene and Du Pont Research, 1930–1939". Technology and Culture 26: 34–55. JSTOR 3104528.
↑ Struve, Vasilij Vasil'evič; Turaev, Boris (1930). "Mathematischer Papyrus des Staatlichen Museums der Schönen Künste in Moskau". Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik; Abteilung A 1. Berlin: Springer.
↑ 4.0 4.1 Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
↑ Wainwright, M.; Swan, H.T. (1986). "C.G. Paine and the earliest surviving clinical records of penicillin therapy". Medical History 30: 42–56. doi:10.1017/S0025727300045026. PMC 1139580. PMID 3511336.
↑ Kane, Joseph (1997). Famous First Facts: A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries, and Inventions in American History (5th ed.). H.W. Wilson Company. p. 5. ISBN 0-8242-0930-3.
↑ "Israel Aharoni". Professor Paul's Lives of the Great Naturalists. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011.