1937 In Science

Astronomy

• June 8 - First total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality in over 800 years; visible in the Pacific and Peru.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
• Physics - Clinton Joseph Davisson, George Paget Thomson
• Chemistry - Walter Haworth, Paul Karrer
• Medicine - Albert von Szent-Gyrgyi Nagyrapolt
• Copley Medal - Henry Dale
• Wollaston Medal for geology - Waldemar Lindgren

Births

Deaths

• July 20 - Guglielmo Marconi (b. 1874), inventor.

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