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

1 Archaeology

• The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered.

2 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.

3 Medicine

• October 12 - An iron lungAn iron lung is a large machine that enables a person who has lost control of their breathing muscles to breathe. Nearly the whole body, except for the head, fits into one of these machines. The machine is airtight and creates a negative pressure inside w respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.

4 Awards

• Nobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes (pronounced no-BELL or no-bell are awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society. It is generally regarded as the supreme commes
  • PhysicsList of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s External links Official site (source for all citatio - Owen Willans RichardsonOwen Willans Richardson ( April 26, 1879 February 15, 1959) was a physicist living in Britain, and was a professor at Princeton from 1906 to 1913. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1900. He was awarded the Hughes medal by the Royal Society
  • ChemistryList of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s External link http://www. se/chemistry/laureates/i - Adolf Otto Reinhold WindausAdolf Otto Reinhold Windaus ( 1876 1959) was a significant German chemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928. Windaus, Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, Adolf Otto Reinhold.
  • MedicineList of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s External links http://www. se/medicin - Charles Jules Henri Nicolle

5 Births

• March 8 - Gerald Bull (d. 1990), engineer.
• April 6 - James D. Watson, geneticist.

6 Deaths

• February 4 - Hendrik Lorentz (b. 1853), Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
• August 30 - Wilhelm Wien (b. 1864), physicist.

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