Overview of the events of 1943 in science
The year 1943 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Physiology and medicine [ edit ] January 14 – Ralph Steinman (died 2011 ), Canadian-born cell biologist, awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2011). April 26 – Christiane Floyd , Austrian-born computer scientist. May 9 – Colin Pillinger (died 2014 ), English astrophysicist . May 14 – Richard Peto , English epidemiologist . June 6 – Richard Smalley (died 2005 ), American organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996) for discovery of buckminsterfullerene . June 16 – Nancy Doe Hopkins , American molecular biologist and advocate for women in science. June 22 – J. Michael Kosterlitz , Scottish-born condensed matter physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2016). June 23 – Vint Cerf , American Internet pioneer. July 11 – Hilary Kahn (died 2007 ), South African -born English computer scientist. August 3 – Masato Sagawa , Japanese inventor. August 10 – Louis E. Brus , American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2023). August 29 – Arthur B. McDonald , Canadian astrophysicist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics (2015). September 20 – Richard McGehee , American mathematician working on celestial mechanics . December 7 – Nick Katz , American mathematician. Mary Lake Polan , American obstetrician and gynecologist . Steen Willadsen , Danish -born embryologist . January 5 – George Washington Carver (born c.1864 ), African American agricultural botanist . January 7 – Nikola Tesla (born 1856 ), Serbian American inventor . January 24 – Carl Brigham (born 1890 ), American pioneer of psychometrics . January 26 – Nikolai Vavilov (born 1887 ), Russian plant pathologist (in prison). February 14 – David Hilbert (born 1862 ), German mathematician . February 20 – Ernest Guglielminetti (born 1862 ), Swiss physician [ 17] February 23 – Abraham Buschke (born 1868 ), German Jewish dermatologist (in Theresienstadt concentration camp ). March 2 – Gisela Januszewska (born 1867 ), Austrian public health physician (in Theresienstadt concentration camp).[ 18] March 28 – Robert W. Paul (born 1869 ), English pioneer of cinematography. April 8 – Kiyotsugu Hirayama (born 1874 ), Japanese astronomer . June 26 – Karl Landsteiner (born 1868 ), Austrian-born American Jewish physiologist . July 5 – Charles Gandy (born 1872 ), French physician . July 7 – Hugh Whistler (born 1889 ), English ornithologist of India. September 23 – John Bradfield (born 1867), Australian civil engineer . September 30 – Carl Edvard Johansson (born 1864 ), Swedish metrologist . October 1 – Albert Stewart Meek (born 1871 ), English-born Australian ornithologist . November 14 – Frank Leverett (born 1859 ), American glaciologist . November 20 – Bertha Lamme Feicht (born 1869 ), American electrical engineer. ^ Ma, Jinshuang; Shao, Guofan (2003). "Rediscovery of the 'first collection' of the 'Living Fossil', Metasequoia glyptostroboides ". Taxon . 52 (3): 585–8. doi :10.2307/3647458 . JSTOR 3647458 . ^ Copeland, B. Jack, ed. (2006). Colossus: the Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-284055-4 . ^ "The Eruption of Parícutin (1943-1952)" . How Volcanoes Work . Archived from the original on 2007-06-04. Retrieved 2012-10-23 . ^ "Parícutin, Mexico" . Volcano World . Archived from the original on 2012-02-06. Retrieved 2012-10-23 . ^ "Parícutin: The Birth of a Volcano" . Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History . Archived from the original on 2013-01-03. Retrieved 2012-10-23 . ^ Comroe, J. H. Jr (1978). "Pay dirt: the story of streptomycin. Part I: from Waksman to Waksman". American Review of Respiratory Disease . 117 (4): 773–781. doi :10.1164/arrd.1978.117.4.773 (inactive 2024-09-12). PMID 417651 . {{cite journal }}
: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of September 2024 (link ) ^ "Surviving War; Declining Health" . Lincoln & Churchill . Lehrman Institute. 2013-11-07. Retrieved 2017-01-21 . ^ Neushul, P. (1993). "Science, government, and the mass production of penicillin" . Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences . 48 (4): 371–395. doi :10.1093/jhmas/48.4.371 . PMID 8283024 . ^ "Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered" . The History Channel. Archived from the original on 2014-03-11. ^ Kanner, L. (1943). "Autistic disturbances of affective contact". Nervous Child . 2 (4): 217–50. PMID 4880460 . Reprinted in: Acta Paedopsychiatrica . 35 (4): 100–36. 1968. PMID 4880460 .{{cite journal }}
: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link ) ^ Aizawa, Ken (2004). "McCulloch, Warren Sturgis" . Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind . Retrieved 2011-12-03 . ^ Moore, Carrie A. (2009-02-11). "Kolff, 'father of artificial organs,' dies at 97" . Deseret News . Salt Lake City. Retrieved 2012-06-13 . ^ Macintosh, R. R. (1943). "A new laryngoscope". The Lancet . 241 (6233): 205. doi :10.1016/S0140-6736(00)89390-3 . ^ Scott, J.; Baker, P. A. (2009). "How did the Macintosh laryngoscope become so popular?" . Pediatric Anesthesia . 19 (Supplement 1): 24–9. doi :10.1111/j.1460-9592.2009.03026.x . PMID 19572841 . S2CID 6345531 . ^ Flower, Stephen (2002). A Hell Of A Bomb . Tempus. ISBN 978-0-7524-2386-9 . ^ McGrath, Kimberley A.; Travers, Bridget E., eds. (1999). World of Invention . Detroit: Thomson Gale. ISBN 978-0-7876-2759-1 . Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 27 June 2011 . ^ (in Italian, French, and German) Heldner, Paul (21 July 2005). "Guglielminetti, Ernest" . Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse. Retrieved 13 February 2021 . ^ Arias, Ingrid (2006). Im Dienste der Volksgesundheit: Frauen – Gesundheitswesen – Nationalsozialismus [In the Service of Public Health: Women, Healthcare, Nazism ] (in German). Vienna: Verlagshaus der Ärzte. p. 87. ISBN 978-3-90148-886-3 .