1928 in science

1928 in science

The year 1928 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Archaeology

* The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered.

Biology

* Frederick Griffith conducts Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving existence of DNA.
* Alexander Fleming accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic Penicillin, forgotten since Ernest Duchesne's original discovery in 1896.

Medicine

* October 12 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.

Awards

* Nobel Prizes
** Physics - Owen Willans Richardson
** Chemistry - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
** Medicine - Charles Jules Henri Nicolle

Births

* March 8 - Gerald Bull (d. 1990), engineer.
* April 6 - James D. Watson, geneticist.
* June 28 - Sir Harold Evans editor.

Deaths

* February 4 - Hendrik Lorentz (b. 1853), Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
* May 21 - Hideyo Noguchi (b. 1876), bacteriologist.
* August 30 - Wilhelm Wien (b. 1864), physicist.


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