The year 1939 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Robert Oppenheimer jointly predicts two new types of celestial...

The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten films nominated for Best Picture at the 12th Academy Awards (which...

1939 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1939. 1939 (MCMXXXIX)...

was invented in 1939 by US physiologist Royal Huddleston Burpee Sr., who used it in the burpee test to assess fitness. Burpee earned a PhD in applied physiology...

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1939. Major excavation of Ostia Antica in Italy begins (continues to 1942). University of Pennsylvania...

The 1939 New York World's Fair (also known as the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair) was an international exposition at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens...

literary events and publications of 1939. Early – The Pocket Books mass-market paperback imprint is launched in the United States. The first of the nationally...

as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1939. Plesiosaur...

The year 1940 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. August 24 – Howard Florey and a team including Ernst Chain, Arthur...

This is a list of people elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1939. Gilbert Smithson Adair Christopher Howard Andrewes Max Born Albert James Bradley...

occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, April 19, 1939, with a magnitude of 0.9731. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes...

was a decade that began on January 1, 1930, and ended on December 31, 1939. In the United States, the Dust Bowl led to the nickname the "Dirty Thirties"...

farming and conventional farming, started in 1939 by Lady Eve Balfour and Alice Debenham, on two adjoining farms in Haughley Green, Suffolk, England. It was...

women in science spans the earliest times of the history of science wherein they have made substantial contributions. Historians with an interest in gender...

The year 1938 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. June 28 – A 450-ton meteorite strikes the Earth in an empty field...

The year 1930 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. January 15 – The Moon moves into perigee at the same time as the...

The year 1939 in architecture involved some significant events. Jane Drew sets up an all-female architectural practice in London. April 21 – The San Jacinto...

occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Thursday, October 12, 1939, with a magnitude of 1.0266. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes...

The year 1942 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. February 27 – James Stanley Hey, a British Army research officer...

history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social...

The year 1851 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. February – First public exhibition of a Foucault pendulum, at the...

1930s in anthropology 1940s Other topics in 1930s: Comics Fashion Music Science and technology Sociology Television Timeline of anthropology, 1930–1939 1934...

The Return of Doctor X (also billed as The Return of Dr. X) is a 1939 American science fiction-horror film directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Wayne...

year 1949 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. January 26 – The Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory in California...

The year 1947 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. August 7 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa-wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes...

The year 1944 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Hendrik van de Hulst predicts the 21 cm hyperfine line of neutral...

The year 1939 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1939. March 4 – The BBC Television Service...

The year 1929 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. July – Henry Norris Russell publishes his finding that hydrogen...

1937 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. June 8 – First total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality in over...

The year 1939 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting. 1 April – The rumor that Hitler is dead sweeps the United States, as millions of...