1926 in science The year 1926 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy and space exploration March 16 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket , at Auburn, Massachusetts .Biology American microbiologist Selman Waksman publishes Enzymes . The Quarterly Review of Biology is established by Raymond Pearl in the United States. Waldo Semon and the B.F. Goodrich Company develop a method of plasticizing polyvinyl chloride , giving it commercial potential. Phencyclidine is first synthesized.Earth sciences Vladimir Vernadsky popularises the concept of the biosphere in a book of this title.Exploration May 12 – Roald Amundsen , Umberto Nobile and crew fly over the North Pole in the airship Norge .Mathematics Otakar Borůvka publishes Borůvka's algorithm , introducing the greedy algorithm . First vaccine for pertussis . American biogerontologist Raymond Pearl publishes his book Alcohol and Longevity demonstrating that drinking alcohol in moderation is associated with greater longevity than either abstaining or drinking heavily. Finnish physician Erik Adolf von Willebrand first describes Hereditär pseudohemofili , later known as Von Willebrand disease . German-Jewish dermatologist Walter Freudenthal gives the earliest clear histopathological description of keratoma senile, distinguishing it from verruca senilis, in Breslau .Paleontology Gerhard Heilmann publishes The Origin of Birds on bird evolution . Wolfgang Pauli uses Werner Heisenberg's matrix theory of quantum mechanics to derive the observed spectrum of the hydrogen atom .Technology January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates his pioneering greyscale mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times . February – Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda publish the first description of the Yagi–Uda antenna . June 28 – A patent for an electric percussion fuse for explosive projectiles, invented by Herbert Rühlemann, is filed in Germany. July * Alan A. Griffith publishes An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design , proposing an airfoil shape for turbine blades . * Carl Zeiss , Jena , open a planetarium housed in a geodesic dome designed by Walther Bauersfeld . November 23 – The aerosol spray can is patented by Erik Rotheim , a Norwegian chemical engineer . The Einstein refrigerator is invented by Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard . Ulster-born engineer Harry Ferguson is granted a British patent for his 'Duplex' hitch linking tractor and plough .Awards Nobel Prizes * Physics – Jean Baptiste Perrin * Chemistry – Theodor Svedberg * Medicine – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger Copley Medal: Frederick Hopkins Wollaston Medal for Geology: Henry Fairfield Osborn Births January 11 – Lev Dyomin , Soviet Russian cosmonaut. January 29 – Abdus Salam , Punjabi theoretical physicist. February – David Medved , American physicist. April 3 – Gus Grissom , American astronaut . May 8 – David Attenborough , English broadcaster and naturalist. June 19 – Erna Schneider Hoover , American computer technologist. June 23 – Lawson Soulsby , English parasitologist . July 27 – W. David Kingery, American materials scientist specializing in ceramic materials . July 31 * Bernard Nathanson , American medical doctor and activist. * Hilary Putnam , American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist . September 4 – George William Gray , Scottish chemist , discoverer of stable liquid crystal materials leading to the development of liquid-crystal displays. September 7 – Donald Pinkel , American pediatric hematologist and oncologist . September 15 – Jean-Pierre Serre , French mathematician. October 2 – Michio Suzuki , Japanese mathematician. October 12 – Ruth L. Kirschstein, American pathologist and science administrator at the National Institutes of Health . October 31 – Narinder Singh Kapany , Punjabi-born physicist. November 29 – Dilhan Eryurt , Turkish astrophysicist. December 10 – Neena Schwartz , American endocrinologist .Deaths March 5 – Clément Ader , French engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer. April 11 – Luther Burbank , American plant breeder . May 8 – Stephen Paget , English surgeon. July 21 – Washington Roebling , American civil engineer . September 23 – Paul Kammerer , Austrian Lamarckian biologist . October 7 – Emil Kraepelin , German psychiatrist . October 10 – Clara H. Hasse, Romanian physician and bacteriologist . November 26 – John Browning , American firearms designer.
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