- 1928 in science
The year 1928 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Archaeology
* The old
Canaan ite city ofUgarit is rediscovered.Biology
*
Frederick Griffith conductsGriffith's experiment , indirectly proving existence ofDNA .
*Alexander Fleming accidentally rediscovers the antibioticPenicillin , forgotten sinceErnest Duchesne 's original discovery in 1896.Medicine
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October 12 - Aniron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital,Boston .Awards
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Nobel Prize s
** Physics -Owen Willans Richardson
** Chemistry -Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
** Medicine -Charles Jules Henri Nicolle Births
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March 8 -Gerald Bull (d. 1990),engineer .
*April 6 -James D. Watson ,geneticist .
*June 28 -Sir Harold Evans editor.Deaths
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February 4 -Hendrik Lorentz (b. 1853), Dutchphysicist andNobel laureate .
*May 21 -Hideyo Noguchi (b. 1876),bacteriologist .
*August 30 -Wilhelm Wien (b. 1864),physicist .
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