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1928
1928 — Howard Percy Robertson briefly mentions that Vesto Slipher's redshift measurements combined with brightness measurements of the same galaxies indicate a redshift-distance relation
Penicillin discovery by Alexander Fleming
Frederick Griffith discovers that hereditary material from dead bacteria can be incorporated into live bacteria
Positron predicted by Dirac
Geiger–Müller counter
Raman scattering effect
Electron microscope, Ernst August Friedrich Ruska
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26 January 1928 discovery of 1155 Aenna
22 February 1928 discovery of 1156) Kira
26 February 1928 discovery of 1091 Spiraea
21 July 1928 discovery of 1096 Reunerta
10 August 1928 discovery of 1110 Jaroslawa
11 August 1928 discovery of 1097 Vicia
15 August 1928 discovery of 1112 Polonia and 1113 Katja
5 September 1928 discovery of 1098 Hakone
11 September 1928 discovery of 1120 Cannonia and 1121 Natascha
13 September 1928 discovery of 1099 Figneria
17 September 1928 discovery of 1122 Neith
21 September 1928 discovery of 1123 Shapleya
22 September 1928 discovery of 1100 Arnica and 1101 Clematis
6 October 1928 discovery of 1124 Stroobantia
5 November 1928 discovery of 1102 Pepita
9 November 1928 discovery of 1103 Sequoia
17 November 1928 discovery of 1114 Lorraine
9 December 1928 discovery of 1104 Syringa
13 December 1928 discovery of 1115 Sabauda
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20 February 1928, Death of Antonio Abetti in Arcetri / Florence, Italy
21 March 1928 Death of Edward Walter Maunder, in London, England,
2 April 1928 Death of Theodore William Richards
25 June 1928 Birth of Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov in Moscow,USSR
30 August 1928 Death of Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien
1928 Birth of Michael Philip Candy
1928 Birth of Tihiro Ohkawa
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Nobel Prize
Physics to Sir Owen Willans Richardson for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him.
Chemistry to Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus "for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins"
Physiology or Medicine: to Charles Jules Henri Nicolle "for his work on typhus"
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