1932 in science

The year 1932 CE in science and technology had many significant events, including those listed below. See also: 1931 in science, other events in 1932, 1933 in science and the list of years in science

Table of contents

1 Biology 2 Physics 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

Biology

\n* Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane publishes The Causes of Evolution and thereby unifies the findings of Mendelian genetics with those of evolutionary science.

Physics

\n* The Kennedy-Thorndike experiment shows that measured time as well as length are affected by motion, in accordance with the theory of special relativity.\n* Chadwick discovers the neutron (Nature 129, 312, 1932).

Awards

\n* Nobel Prizes\n** Physics - Werner Karl Heisenberg\n** Chemistry - Irving Langmuir\n** Medicine - Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian

Births

\n* January 16 - Dian Fossey, zoologist (d. 1985)\n* April 26 - Michael Smith, chemist, 1993 Nobel Prize winner

Deaths

\n* March 14 - George Eastman, photography pioneer\n* April 3 - Wilhelm Ostwald, chemist\n* April 20 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician \n