Chemistry
- July – Edward Adelbert Doisy of Saint Louis University publishes the chemical structure of vitamin K.
- Linus Pauling publishes The Nature of the Chemical Bond, a compilation of a decade's work on chemical bonding, explaining hybridization theory, covalent bonding and ionic bonding as explained through electronegativity, and resonance as a means to explain, among other things, the structure of benzene.
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