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Overview of the events of 1941 in science
The year 1941 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
February 23 – Chemical element 94, plutonium , is first synthesized by Glenn T. Seaborg , Arthur C. Wahl , Joseph W. Kennedy and Emilio Segrè . It is kept secret until after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , as it is being developed for the first atomic bombs .
Folic acid is first isolated via extraction from spinach leaves by Herschel K. Mitchell , Esmond E. Snell and Roger J. Williams at the University of Texas at Austin .[ 3] The first polyester fibre, polyethylene terephthalate (terylene), is patented by John Rex Whinfield , James T. Dickson and their employer the Calico Printers' Association of Manchester , England. Charles Singer 's A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century published in the U.K.The Gloster E.28/39 , the first British aircraft to fly with a turbojet engine January 16 – András Sárközy , Hungarian mathematician .
January 24 – Dan Shechtman , Israeli winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011).
February 12 – Dennis Sullivan , American mathematician.
March 10 – George P. Smith , American biochemist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018).
March 14 – Michael Berry , English mathematical physicist .
March 26 – Richard Dawkins , British evolutionary biologist .
March 27 – Simon Campbell , British chemist.
April 23 – Ray Tomlinson (died 2016 ), American computer scientist.
April 28 – Karl Barry Sharpless , American chemist, twice winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2001, 2022).[ 12]
May 25 – Uta Frith , German-born British developmental psychologist .
June 20 – Robert D. Acland (died 2016 ), English-born microsurgeon .
July 23 – Pierre Agostini , French experimental physicist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2023).
August 2 – Jules A. Hoffmann , Luxembourg -born winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2011).
August 22 – Peter Murray-Rust , British chemist and Herman Skolnik Award winner.
September 2 – Shasanka Mohan Roy , Indian quantum physicist .
September 9 – Dennis Ritchie (died 2011 ), American computer scientist .
September 10 – Stephen Jay Gould (died 2002 ), American paleontologist /evolutionist .
December 22 – M. Stanley Whittingham , English-born solid-state chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2019).
Vivian Pinn , American physician .February 21 – Sir Frederick Banting (born 1891 ), Canadian discoverer of insulin , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1923 ) (military aircraft accident).
April 5 – Sir Nigel Gresley (born 1876 ), English steam locomotive engineer (Flying Scotsman Mallard
April 13 – Annie Jump Cannon (born 1863 ), American astronomer.
April 17 – Hans Driesch (born 1867 ), German biologist and philosopher.
June 1 – Hans Berger (born 1873 ), German neurologist.
June 6 – Louis Chevrolet (born 1878 ), Swiss -born race driver and automobile builder in the United States.
July 11 – Sir Arthur Evans (born 1851 ), English archaeologist .
July 26 – Henri Lebesgue (born 1875 ), French mathematician.
August 14 – Paul Sabatier (born 1854 ), French chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1912).
August 30 – Peder Oluf Pedersen (born 1874 ), Danish engineer and physicist.
September 9 – Hans Spemann (born 1869 ), German embryologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1935).
November 10 – Carrie Derick (born 1862 , Canadian botanist and geneticist.
November 18 – Walther Nernst (born 1864 ), German physical chemist .
November 22 – Kurt Koffka (born 1886 , German-born psychologist.
December 11 – Émile Picard (born 1856 ), French mathematician.
December 29 – Tullio Levi-Civita (born 1873 ), Italian mathematician.
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