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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

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

Physics

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

Awards

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

Births

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

Deaths

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

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