1936 in science

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

Chemistry

February 4 – Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
December 23 – The first nerve agent, Tabun, is discovered (accidentally) by a research team headed by Dr Gerhard Schrader of IG Farben in Germany.^[1]^[2]

May 28 – Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" to the London Mathematical Society for publication, introducing the concept of the theoretical "a[utomatic]-machine" or Turing machine. Its formal publication is on November 12.^[3]

Inge Lehmann argues that the Earth's molten interior has a solid inner core.^[4]^[5]

António Egas Moniz publishes his first report of performing a prefrontal leukotomy on a human patient.^[7]
Guido Fanconi describes a connection between celiac disease, cystic fibrosis of the pancreas and bronchiectasis.^[8]

June 26 – Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first fully controllable helicopter, makes its first flight.
November 2 – The world's first regular daily high-definition (at this time defined as at least 200 lines) television broadcast service is begun by the British Broadcasting Corporation from Alexandra Palace in London (following test transmissions since August). The service initially alternates on a weekly basis between John Logie Baird's 240-line electromechanical system and the Marconi-EMI all-electronic 405-line television system.

September 7 – Death of the last recorded thylacine, in Hobart Zoo.^[10]
American explorer Ruth Harkness brings the first live giant panda, a cub named Su Lin, out of China.^[11]

January 10 – Robert Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer.
March 24 – David Suzuki, Canadian geneticist and populariser of science.
April 17 – Meemann Chang, Chinese paleontologist.
August 1 – W. D. Hamilton (died 2000), English evolutionary biologist, widely recognised as one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century.
September 17 – Gerald Guralnik (died 2014), American physicist most famous for his co-discovery of the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson.
December 22 – James Burke, British historian and populariser of science.

February 27 – Ivan Pavlov (born 1849), Russian physiologist.
April 8 – Róbert Bárány (born 1876), Austro-Hungarian-born otologist, Nobel Prize winner in medicine.
April 9 – John Uri Lloyd (born 1849), American pharmacist and science fiction author.
April 27 – Karl Pearson (born 1857), English mathematician.
August 25 – Maria von Linden (born 1869), German bacteriologist and zoologist.

↑ "A Short History of the Development of Nerve Gases". Noblis.org. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
↑ "Nerve Agent: GA". Cbwinfo.com. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
↑ Publications ser. 2 vol. 42 p. 230.
↑ Lehmann, Inge (1936). "P'". Publications du Bureau Central Séismologique International. A14 (3): S.87–115.
↑ Bolt, Bruce A. (1987). "50 years of studies on the inner core". Eos. 68 (6): 73, 80–81.
↑ Meijer, C. S. (1936). "Über Whittakersche bzw. Besselsche Funktionen und deren Produkte". Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (2) (in German). 18 (4): 10–39. JFM 62.0421.02.
↑ "Biography". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
↑ Fanconi, G.; Uehlinger, E.; Knauer, C. (1936). "Das coeliakiesyndrom bei angeborener zysticher pankreasfibromatose und bronchiektasien". Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift. 86: 753–756.
↑ Hogg, Michael A.; Vaughan, Graham M. (2005). Social Psychology (4th ed.). Harlow: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0273686992.
↑ Paddle, Robert (2000). The Last Tasmanian Tiger: the History and Extinction of the Thylacine. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-53154-3.
↑ Watson, D. A. "The Panda Lady: Ruth Harkness (Part 1)". Female explorers. Archived from the original on 15 December 2006. Retrieved 2007-02-01.

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