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Overview of the events of 1923 in science
The year 1923 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Aeronautics [ edit ] Astronomy and space science [ edit ] Biology [ edit ] March 23 – The governor of Oklahoma signs House Bill 197 with the Montgomery amendment outlawing the theory of evolution in public school textbooks purchased by the state, the first anti-Darwinian legislation passed in the United States.[2]
Karl von Frisch publishes "Über die 'Sprache' der Bienen. Eine tierpsychologische Untersuchung" ("On the 'language' of bees: an examination of animal psychology").[3] Chemistry [ edit ] Cryptography [ edit ] Electronics [ edit ] Exploration [ edit ] Medicine [ edit ] Paleontology [ edit ] Physics [ edit ] Technology [ edit ] January 1 – Daniel Gorenstein (died 1992 ), American mathematician .
January 11 – Robert J. Gorlin (died 2006 ), American pathologist .
February 13 – Chuck Yeager (died 2020 ), American pilot.
February 14 – Doris Calloway , née Howes (died 2001 ), American nutritionist .
February 20 – Helen Murray Free (died 2021 ), American medical chemist.
March 4 – Patrick Moore (died 2012 ), English astronomer .
March 9 – Walter Kohn (died 2016 ), Viennese-born physicist .
March 10 – Val Logsdon Fitch (died 2015 ), American nuclear physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics .
April 1 – Brigitte Askonas (died 2013 ), Viennese-born British immunologist .
April 2 – G. Spencer-Brown (died 2016 ), English mathematician.
April 16 – Stewart Adams (died 2019 ), English pharmaceutical chemist.
April 21 – Albert (Ab) C. Perdeck (died 2009 ), Dutch ornithologist .
April 23 – Walter Pitts (died 1969 ), American logician and cognitive psychologist .
July 5 – Ivo Pitanguy (died 2016 ), Brazilian plastic surgeon .
July 12 – René Favaloro (died 2000 ), Argentine cardiac surgeon .
July 23 – Ulf Grenander (died 2016 ), Swedish -born mathematician .
July 28 – Xia Peisu (died 2014 ), Chinese computer scientist.
July 31 – Stephanie Kwolek (died 2014 ), American polymer chemist .
August 19 – Edgar F. Codd (died 2003 ), English-born computer scientist.
September 9 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (died 2008 ), American virologist.
September 13 – Miroslav Holub (died 1998 ), Czech immunologist and poet.
September 26 – John Ertle Oliver (died 2011 ), American geophysicist.
October 29 – Carl Djerassi (died 2015 ), Viennese-born chemist.
November 8 – Jack Kilby (died 2005 ), American electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
November 18 – Alan Shepard (died 1998), American astronaut .
December 13 – Philip Warren Anderson (died 2020 ), American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
December 15 – Freeman Dyson (died 2020 ), English-born theoretical physicist. February 10 – Wilhelm Röntgen (born 1845 ), German physicist , discoverer of X-rays , Nobel laureate.
February 24 – Edward Morley (born 1838 ), American chemist .
March 8 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals (born 1837 ), Dutch physicist.
March 27 – James Dewar (born 1842 ), Scottish-born chemist.
April 11 – Mary Treat (born 1830 ), American naturalist.
July 16 – Sydney Mary Thompson (born 1847 ), Irish-born geologist and botanist .
August 23 – Hertha Ayrton (born 1854 ), English electrical engineer .[12]
October 3 – Kadambini Ganguly (born 1861 ), Indian physician .
December 2 – Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (born 1834 ), English surveyor , geologist and naturalist .
December 7 – Sir Frederick Treves (born 1853 ), English-born surgeon .
December 27 – Gustave Eiffel (born 1832 ), French structural engineer . References [ edit ]
^ Chartrand, Mark (September 1973). "A Fifty Year Anniversary of a Two Thousand Year Dream (The History of the Planetarium)" . The Planetarian . 2 (3). International Planetarium Society. ISSN 0090-3213 . Archived from the original on 2009-04-20. Retrieved 2009-02-26 . ^ O'Dell, Larry. "Anti-Evolution Movement" . Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture . Oklahoma Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2010-10-18. Retrieved 2010-09-13 . ^ Zoologische Jahrbücher (Physiologie) 40 : pp. 1–186.^ Coster, D.; Hevesy, G. (20 January 1923). "On the Missing Element of Atomic Number 72" . Nature 111 (2777): 79. Bibcode :1923Natur.111...79C . doi :10.1038/111079a0 ^ Hevesy, G. (1925). "The Discovery and Properties of Hafnium". Chemical Reviews 2 : 1. doi :10.1021/cr60005a001 . ^ Bohr, N.; Coster, D. (December 1923). "Röntgenspektren und periodisches System der Elemente". Zeitschrift für Physik A 12 (1): 342–374. Bibcode :1923ZPhy...12..342B . doi :10.1007/BF01328104 . S2CID 120877752 . ^ According to chemistry historian Henry M. Leicester.
^ Singh, Simon (1999). The Code Book: the Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography ISBN 1-85702-879-1 ^ Zobel, O. J. (1923). "Theory and Design of Uniform and Composite Electric Wave Filters". Bell System Technical Journal . 2 : 1–46. doi :10.1002/j.1538-7305.1923.tb00001.x . ^ Fastovsky, David. "Life and Death in a 70 Million-Year-Old Sand Sea" . Retrieved 2011-02-14 . ^ AMNH 6515. Osborn, Henry F. (1924). "Three new Theropoda, Protoceratops zone, central Mongolia". American Museum Novitates (144): 1–12. hdl :2246/3223 .^ Haines, Catharine M. C. (2001). International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 . Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1
