1932 in science Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

The year 1932 in science and technology had many significant events, including those listed below.

Biology

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

• 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).

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

• January 16 - Dian Fossey († 1985), zoologist.
• April 26 - Michael Smith († 2000), chemist, 1993 Nobel Prize winner.
• August 15 - Robert Lull Forward († 2002), science fiction author and physicist.
• September 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov († 2002), cosmonaut.

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

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