Editing 1952 in science (section)

==Biology==
* August 1 – Around 9 o'clock AM Pacific Time Zone, the [[San Benedicto rock wren]] goes [[extinct]] as [[San Benedicto Island|its island home]] is smothered in a massive [[volcanic]] eruption.
* August 14 – [[Alan Turing]]'s paper "[[The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis]]" is published, putting forward a [[Reaction–diffusion system|reaction–diffusion]] hypothesis of [[pattern formation]],<ref>{{cite journal|last=Turing|first=A. M.|title=The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|volume=237|issue=641|date=14 August 1952|pages=37–72|jstor=92463|doi=10.1098/rstb.1952.0012|bibcode=1952RSPTB.237...37T|doi-access=free}} Submitted November 1951.</ref> considered a seminal piece of work in [[morphogenesis]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Control Mechanism For Biological Pattern Formation Decoded|journal=ScienceDaily|date=30 November 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swintons.net/deodands/archives/000087.html |title=Turing's Last, Lost Work |publisher=Swintons |access-date=28 November 2011  |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030823032620/http://www.swintons.net/deodands/archives/000087.html |archive-date=23 August 2003 }} ()</ref>
* August 28 – [[Alan Lloyd Hodgkin|Alan Hodgkin]] and [[Andrew Huxley]] publish the [[Hodgkin–Huxley model]] of [[action potential]]s in [[neuron]]s of the [[squid giant axon]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hodgkin|first1=A. L.|last2=Huxley|first2=A. F.|year=1952|title=A Quantitative Description of Membrane Current and its Application to Conduction and Excitation in Nerve|journal=[[The Journal of Physiology]]|volume=117|pages=500–544|pmid=12991237|pmc=1392413|issue=4|doi=10.1113/jphysiol.1952.sp004764}}</ref>
* September 20 – Publication of the paper on the [[Hershey–Chase experiment]] showing conclusively that [[DNA]], not [[protein]], is the genetic material of [[bacteriophage]]s.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hershey|first1=A. D.|first2=Martha|last2=Chase|title=Independent Functions of Viral Protein and Nucleic Acid in Growth of Bacteriophage |journal=[[The Journal of General Physiology]]|volume=36|issue=1|pages=39–56|year=1952|doi=10.1085/jgp.36.1.39|pmid=12981234|pmc=2147348}}</ref>
* October – Danish virologist [[Preben von Magnus]] publishes his observation of the [[von Magnus phenomenon]] producing [[defective interfering particle]]s.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gard|first1=S.|last2=von Magnus|first2=P.|last3=Svedmyr|first3=A.|last4=Birch-Andersen|first4=A.|title=Studies on the sedimentation of influenza virus|journal=[[Archiv für die gesamte Virusforschung]]|year=1952|volume=4|issue=5|pages=591–611|doi=10.1007/BF01242026|pmid=14953289|s2cid=21838623}}</ref>
* Biochemists Jack Gross and [[Rosalind Pitt-Rivers]] discover the [[thyroid hormone]] [[triiodothyronine]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gross|first1=J.|last2=Pitt-Rivers|first2=R.|year=1952|title=The Identification of 3:5:3'-L-Triiodothyronine in Human Plasma|journal=[[The Lancet]]|volume=259|issue=6705|pages=439–441|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(52)91952-1|pmid=14898765}}</ref>
* The [[Braeburn]] apple [[cultivar]] is discovered as a [[chance seedling]] in New Zealand.
* Last confirmed sighting of the [[Caribbean monk seal]], at [[Serranilla Bank]], between [[Jamaica]] and [[Nicaragua]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Rice|first=D|title=Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis). In Seals. Proceedings of working meeting of seal specialists on threatened and depleted seals of the world, held under the auspices of the Survival Service Commission of the IUCN, 18–19 August|year=1973|publisher=Univ. Guelph, IUCN Publ, Suppl. paper|location=Ontario, Canada. Morges, Switzerland}}</ref>