1941 In Science

The year 1941 in Science and Technology involved some significant events, listed below.

BIOLOGY

George Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum publish "Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora" which showed that specific genes code for specific proteins.

CHEMISTRY

Chemical element 94, Plutonium , first synthesized by Glenn T. Seaborg , Arthur C. Wahl , Joseph W. Kennedy , Emilio Segrè . Is kept secret until after the Atomic Bombings Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki , as it is being developed for the first Atomic Bomb s.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

PHYSICS

Ives and Stilwell prove that Ion s radiate at Frequencies affected by their motion.

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