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1936 in science

The year 1936 CE in science and technology had many significant events, including those listed below.

See also: 1935 in science, other events in 1936, 1937 in science and the list of years in science

Table of contents

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

Chemistry

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

Geology

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

Computer science

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

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Victor Franz Hess, Carl David Anderson
  • Chemistry - Peter Debye
  • Medicine - Sir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi

Births

• January 10 - Robert Wilson, physicist, radio astronomer

Deaths

• April 8 - Robert_Barany, Nobel Prize winner in medicine

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