Overview of the events of 1942 in science
The year 1942 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
December – Raphaël Salem and Donald C. Spencer publish a progression-free Salem–Spencer set of the numbers from 1 {\displaystyle 1} to n {\displaystyle n} of size proportional to n 1 − ε {\displaystyle n^{1-\varepsilon }} , for every ε > 0 {\displaystyle \varepsilon >0} .[ 6] Physiology and medicine [ edit ] January 8 – Stephen Hawking , English cosmologist and best-selling author of A Brief History of Time (died 2018 ) January 12 – Michel Mayor , Swiss astronomer , recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics January 27 – Tasuku Honjo , Japanese immunologist, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine March 27 – John Sulston , English molecular biologist, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2018) May 24 – Fraser Stoddart , Scottish-born chemist, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry June 8 – Jacques Dubochet , Swiss biophysicist , recipient of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry August 24 – Karen Uhlenbeck , American mathematician October 20 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard , German developmental geneticist, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine November 14 – Hanna von Hoerner , German astrophysicist (died 2014 ) November 22 – Guion Bluford , African American aerospace engineer and astronaut November 30 – André Brahic , French astrophysicist (died 2016 ) December 1 – John Clauser , American quantum physicist, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics[ 18] March 10 – William Henry Bragg , English recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics (born 1862 ) March 14 – Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde , German botanist (born 1873 ) May 19 – Joseph Larmor , Irish physicist (born 1857 ) August 6 – Valdemar Poulsen , Danish audio engineer (born 1869 ) August 12 – Sabina Spielrein , Russian psychoanalyst , in Zmievskaya Balka massacre[ 19] (born 1885 ) September 22 – Isaak Bacharach , German mathematician (born 1854 ) October 5 – Dorothea Klumpke , American astronomer (born 1861 ) October 27 – Alfred Baker , Canadian mathematician (born 1848 ) November 3 – Ernest Gibbins , English entomologist , speared by Ugandan tribesmen amongst whom he was working (born 1900 ). November 5 – Alexis Carrel , French surgeon, biologist and winner of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1873 ) November 13 – Robert Remak , German mathematician, in Auschwitz (born 1888 ) December 21 – Franz Boas , German American anthropologist (born 1858 ) Vernon Orlando Bailey , American naturalist (born 1864 ) ^ Hey, J. S. (1975). The Radio Universe (2nd ed.). Oxford: Pergamon Press . ISBN 0-08-018760-9 . ^ Westenhöfer, M. (1942). Der Eigenweg des Menschen . Mannstaedt & Co. ^ "Inventor of the Week Archive" . Lemelson-MIT Program. September 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-09-30. Retrieved 2010-02-13 . ^ "History of Kodak – 1930-1959" . Kodak. Archived from the original on 2009-08-22. Retrieved 2012-01-10 . ^ Ralston, Anthony; Meek, Christopher, eds. (1976). Encyclopedia of Computer Science (2nd ed.). pp. 488–489. ISBN 0-88405-321-0 . ^ Salem, R. ; Spencer, D. C. (December 1942). "On sets of integers which contain no three terms in arithmetical progression" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 28 (12). United States: 561–563. Bibcode :1942PNAS...28..561S . doi :10.1073/pnas.28.12.561 . PMC 1078539 . PMID 16588588 . ^ Broad, William J. (30 October 2007). "Why They Called It the Manhattan Project" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2010-10-27 . ^ Jones, Vincent C. (1985). Manhattan, the Army and the atomic bomb . Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army. pp. 41–43. ^ Klinefelter, H. F. jr; Reifenstein, E. C. jr; Albright, F. (1942). "Syndrome characterized by gynecomastia, aspermatogenesis without a-Leydigism and increased excretion of follicle-stimulating hormone". The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism . 2 (11): 615–624. doi :10.1210/jcem-2-11-615 . ^ Klinefelter, H. F. (September 1986). "Klinefelter's syndrome: historical background and development". Southern Medical Journal . 79 (9): 1089–93. doi :10.1097/00007611-198609000-00012 . PMID 3529433 . ^ Not published until 1946 . Gilman, Alfred (1963). "The Initial Clinical Trial of Nitrogen Mustard". American Journal of Surgery . 105 (5): 574–578. doi :10.1016/0002-9610(63)90232-0 . PMID 13947966 . ^ Millikan, G. A. (1942). "The oximeter: an instrument for measuring continuously oxygen saturation of arterial blood in man". Review of Scientific Instruments . 13 (10): 434–444. Bibcode :1942RScI...13..434M . doi :10.1063/1.1769941 . ^ #2,292,387. ^ Long, Tony (2011-08-11). "This Day in Tech: Aug. 11, 1942: Actress + Piano Player = New Torpedo" . Wired . Retrieved 2012-09-26 . ^ Angelucci, Enzo (1987). The American Fighter: the Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft from 1917 to the present . New York: Orion Books. p. 50. ^ Harpur, Brian (1991). A bridge to victory: the untold story of the Bailey Bridge . London: HMSO. p. 69. ISBN 0117726508 . ^ Harford, Tim (2020). The Next Fifty things that made the modern economy . London: Bridge Street Press. pp. 151–2. ISBN 9781408712665 . ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022" . Nobel Prize (Press release). The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . 2022-10-04. Retrieved 2022-10-06 . ^ "Rostov Jewish Community Calls For Survivors, Children to Remember Zmievskaya Balka" . Chabad Lubavitch . 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2012-01-04 .