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1928 in science

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

See also: 1927 in science, other events of 1928, 1929 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

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

Archaeology

• The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered.

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.

Medicine

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

Awards

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

Births

• March 8 - Gerald Bull, engineer (d. 1990)
• April 6 - James D. Watson, geneticist

Deaths

• February 4 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate
• August 30 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist

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