1936 in science

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The year 1936 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Chemistry 2 Geology 3 Computer science 4 Awards 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Chemistry

• February 4 - Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.

[edit] Geology

• Inge Lehmann argues that the Earth's molten interior has a solid core.

[edit] Computer science

• May 28 - Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication.

[edit] Awards

• Fields Prize in Mathematics: Lars Ahlfors and Jesse Douglas
• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Victor Franz Hess, Carl David Anderson
  • Chemistry - Peter Debye
  • Medicine - Sir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi

[edit] Births

• January 10 - Robert Wilson, physicist, radio astronomer.

[edit] Deaths

• April 8 - Robert Bárány (b. 1876), Nobel Prize winner in medicine.