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The year 1929 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

ASTRONOMY AND SPACE EXPLORATION

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Edwin Hubble publishes his discovery that the speed at which Galaxies recede positively correlates with their distance, which became known as Hubble's Law , the basis for understanding that the Universe is expanding.

George Gamow proposes Hydrogen Fusion as the energy source for Star s.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes the construction of Staged Rocket s in his book ''Космические поезда (Cosmic Trains)''.

AVIATION

July 5 - The Curtiss-Wright corporation is founded.

August 8 - The German airship '' Graf Zeppelin '' begins a round-the-world flight (will end on August 29 ).

November 29 - US Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole .

December 5 - Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation is founded.

BIOLOGY

Professor Gericke of the University Of California, Los Angeles demonstrates that Plant s can be grown soil-free all the way to maturity, the basis of Hydroponics .

CHEMISTRY

Sir John Lennard-Jones introduces his Linear Combination Of Atomic Orbitals Molecular Orbital Method for approximation of Molecular Orbital s.

Lars Onsager publishes his Reciprocal Relations equations in Thermodynamics , for which he received the 1968 Nobel Prize In Chemistry .

COMMUNICATIONS

Rudolf Hell receives a Patent for the ''Hellschreiber'', an early Fax machine.

First practical Coaxial Cable patented by Lloyd Espenschied and Herman Affel of AT&T 's Bell Telephone Laboratories .

GEOLOGY

in the Atlantic Ocean , a Richter Magnitude 7.2 submarine Earthquake centered on Grand Banks , breaks 12 submarine Transatlantic Telegraph Cable s and triggers a Tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area.

MATHEMATICS

Kurt Gödel Proves his Completeness Theorem .

MEDICINE

Alexander Fleming publishes an article about Penicillin in the ''British Journal of Experimental Pathology'', for which he received the 1945 Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine

PHYSICS

Robert J. Van De Graaff develops the Van De Graaff Generator .

Oskar Klein discovers the Klein Paradox .

Oskar Klein and Y. Nishina derive the Klein-Nishina Cross Section for high energy photon scattering by electrons.

Sir Nevill Francis Mott derives the Mott Cross Section for the Coulomb scattering of relativistic Electrons .

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac and Werner Karl Heisenberg develop the quantum theory of Ferromagnetism .

Ernest O. Lawrence invents the Cyclotron , for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize In Physics .

AWARDS

Nobel Prize

---, Hans Karl August Simon Von Euler-Chelpin

---, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins

BIRTHS

April 22 - Sir Michael Francis Atiyah , Mathematician .

May 21 - Andrei Sakharov (d. 1989 ), nuclear Physicist .

June 10 - Edward Osborne Wilson , Entomologist .

July 1 - Gerald Edelman , Biologist .

September 5 - Andrian Nikolayev (d. 2004 ), Cosmonaut .

September 15 - Murray Gell-Mann , Physicist , 1969 Nobel Laureate in physics.

November 7 - Eric R. Kandel , Neurobiology researcher and Nobel Laureate .

DEATHS

February 3 - A. K. Erlang (b. 1878 ), Mathematician .

March 6 - David Buick , Automobile pioneer.

April 4 - Karl Benz (b. 1844 ), German automotive pioneer.

August 27 - Herman Potočnik Noordung (b. 1892 ), Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics.

November 17 - Herman Hollerith (b. 1860 ), Statistician , Punch Card inventor.

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