Chemistry
- The Mulliken scale of chemical element electronegativity is developed by Robert S. Mulliken.
- Norman Haworth and Edmund Hirst report the first synthesis of vitamin C.
- J. D. Bernal and Dorothy Crowfoot first successfully apply the technique of X-ray crystallography to analysis of a biological substance, pepsin.
- Sodium thiopental, the first intravenous anesthetic, is synthesized by Ernest H. Volwiler with Donalee L. Tabern of Abbott Laboratories.
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