Overview of the events of 1948 in science
The year 1948 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space science [ edit ] Medicine and human sciences [ edit ] January 30 – Akira Yoshino , Japanese chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. March 1 – Alison Richard , English primatologist and academic. March 9 – László Lovász , Hungarian computer scientist . March 21 – Robert Watson , British atmospheric chemist. May – David Mabberley , English-born plant taxonomist. June 13 – Nina L. Etkin (died 2009 ), American anthropologist and biologist . June 28 – Kenneth Alan Ribet , American mathematician. July 20 – Martin Green , Australian solar cell researcher. August 4 – Giorgio Parisi , Italian theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics . August 7 – James P. Allison , American immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine . August 25 – Nicholas A. Peppas , Greek chemical and biomedical engineer . August 29 – Robert S. Langer , American biomedical engineer. August 30 – Victor Skumin , Russian scientist , psychiatrist and psychologist ; describes Skumin syndrome in 1978. September 2 – Christa McAuliffe , born Sharon Christa Corrigan (died 1986 ), American astronaut . October 29 – Frans de Waal , Dutch primatologist. October 31 – Mu-ming Poo , Chinese neuroscientist . December 30 – Randy Schekman , American cell biologist , recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Margaret Allen , American cardiothoracic surgeon . Robert Plomin , American-born psychologist . ^ Moore, Patrick (1995). The Guinness Book of Astronomy (5th ed.). Enfield, UK: Guinness Publishing. p. 110. ISBN 978-0851126432 . ^ Wade, Mark. "R-1" . Archived from the original on August 20, 2016. Retrieved 2020-12-06 . ^ Joravsky, David (1970). The Lysenko Affair . Russian Research Center studies, 61. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-53985-3 . ^ Cohen, Barry M. (1965). "The descent of Lysenko". The Journal of Heredity . 56 (5): 229–233. doi :10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a107425 . ^ Christoffersen, Leif E. (1994). "IUCN: A Bridge-Builder for Nature Conservation" (PDF) . Green Globe YearBook . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-12-16. Retrieved 2011-11-02 . ^ Netzley, Patricia (1999). Environmental Literature . California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-57607-000-0 . ^ Desrochers, Pierre; Hoffbauer, Christine (2009). "The Post War Intellectual Roots of the Population Bomb: Fairfield Osborne's Our Plundered Planet and William Vogt's Road to Survival in retrospect" (PDF) . The Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development . 1 (3): 73–97. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2011-12-08 . ^ Campbell-Kelly, Martin (2022-11-12). "Kathleen Booth" . The Guardian . London. p. 9 (Journal). Retrieved 2022-11-13 . ^ Enticknap, Nicholas (Summer 1998). "Computing's Golden Jubilee" . Resurrection (20). Computer Conservation Society. ISSN 0958-7403 . Archived from the original on 2012-01-09. Retrieved 2011-11-25 . ^ James, Ioan (2009). "Claude Elwood Shannon 30 April 1916 – 24 February 2001" . Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 55 : 257–265. doi :10.1098/rsbm.2009.0015 . ^ "The Lost Decade Timeline" . BBC . Archived from the original on 2006-08-21. Retrieved 2007-09-25 . ^ Alpher, R. A.; Bethe, H. ; Gamow, G. (1948-04-01). "The Origin of Chemical Elements" (PDF) . Physical Review . 73 (7): 803–804. Bibcode :1948PhRv...73..803A . doi :10.1103/PhysRev.73.803 . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 2011-03-10 . ^ Casimir, H. B. G. (1948). "On the attraction between two perfectly conducting plates" (PDF) . Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wet . 51 : 793. ^ "Science Places Liverpool" . 2008. Retrieved 2011-03-20 . ^ Goldmark, Peter (1973). Maverick Inventor: My Turbulent Years at CBS . New York: Saturday Review Press. ISBN 978-0-8415-0046-4 . ^ "Columbia Diskery: CBS Show Microgroove Platters to Press; Tell How It Began". Billboard : 3. 1948-06-26. ^ Marmorstein, Gary (2007). The Label: the Story of Columbia Records . New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-1-56025-707-3 . ^ Brown, David J. (1993). Bridges . London: Mitchell Beazley. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-85732-163-0 .