1928 in science
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The year 1928 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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Archaeology
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
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.