1928 In Science

Archaeology

• The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered.

Biology

• Frederick Griffith conducts Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving existence of DNA.
• Alexander Fleming accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic Penicillin, forgotten since Ernest Duchesne's original discovery in 1896.

Medicine

• October 12 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
• Physics - Owen Willans Richardson
• Chemistry - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
• Medicine - Charles Jules Henri Nicolle

Births

• March 8 - Gerald Bull (d. 1990), engineer.
• April 6 - James D. Watson, geneticist.

Deaths

• February 4 - Hendrik Lorentz (b. 1853), Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
• August 30 - Wilhelm Wien (b. 1864), physicist.

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