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The year 1932 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Biology
- Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane publishes The Causes of Evolution and thereby unifies the findings of Mendelian genetics with those of evolutionary science.
Physics
- The Kennedy-Thorndike experiment shows that measured time as well as length are affected by motion, in accordance with the theory of special relativity.
- Chadwick discovers the neutron (Nature 129, 312, 1932).
Awards
Births
- January 16 - Dian Fossey (d. 1985), zoologist.
- April 26 - Michael Smith (d. 2000), chemist, 1993 Nobel Prize winner.
- August 15 - Robert Lull Forward (d. 2002), science fiction author and physicist.
- September 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov (d. 2002), cosmonaut.
Deaths
- March 14 - George Eastman (b. 1854), photography pioneer.
- April 3 - Wilhelm Ostwald (b. 1853), chemist.
- April 20 - Giuseppe Peano (b. 1858), Italian mathematician.
- July 9 - King Camp Gillette (b. 1855), inventor.
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