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Alan Walsh pioneers the field of atomic absorption spectroscopy, an important quantitative spectroscopy method that allows one to measure specific concentrations of a material in a mixture.
Robert Burns Woodward, Geoffrey Wilkinson, and Ernst Otto Fischer discover the structure of ferrocene, one of the founding discoveries of the field of organometallic chemistry.
The Hershey-Chase experiment proves the genetic information of phages (and all other organisms) to be DNA
30 March 1952 discovery of 1824 Haworth
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Bubble Chamber, D. Glaser
24 April 1952, Death of Hendrik Anthony Kramers
27 April 1952 Death of Guido Castelnuovo
1952 Death of Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff
1952 Death of Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
1952 Death of Nevil Vincent Sidgwick
1952 Birth of Katsunobu Oide
Nobel Prize
Physics to Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith"
Chemistry to Archer John Porter Martin and Richard Laurence Millington Synge "for their invention of partition chromatography"
Physiology or Medicine to Selman Abraham Waksman "for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis"
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