Overview of the events of 1943 in science
The year 1943 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Computer science
Earth sciences
Nuclear physics
Pharmacology
Psychology
Physiology and medicine
Technology
Awards
Births
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 .
Deaths
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.
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^ 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 31 January 2024). PMID 417651 . {{cite journal }}
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^ "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 }}
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^ 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 .
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^ (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 .