Editing 1937 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* November 2 – English chemist [[Montague Phillips (chemist)|Montague Phillips]] at [[May & Baker]] synthesises [[sulphapyridine]] (M&B 693), an early [[antibiotic]] which immediately enters animal trials with [[Middlesex Hospital]] pathologist [[Lionel Whitby]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Lesch |first=John |title=The First Miracle Drugs |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-19-518775-5 |edition=Illustrated |chapter=Chapter 7}}</ref>
* First [[typhus vaccine]] by [[Rudolf Weigl]], [[Ludwik Fleck]] and [[Hans Zinsser]]; [[influenza vaccine]] by Anatol Smorodintsev.<ref>{{cite book|author=Plotkin, S. L.; S. A.|chapter=A short history of vaccination|title=Vaccines|editor=Plotkin, Stanley A.; Orenstein, Walter A.; Offit, Paul A.|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences|year=2008|page=8}}</ref>
* [[Both respirator]] designed in Australia.
* Italian psychiatrist [[Amarro Fiamberti]] is the first to document a transorbital approach to the brain, which becomes the basis for the controversial medical procedure of [[transorbital lobotomy]].
* Publication in the [[United Kingdom]] of Dr [[A. J. Cronin]]'s novel ''[[The Citadel (novel)|The Citadel]]'', promoting the cause of socialised medicine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.60yearsofnhsscotland.co.uk/history/birth-of-nhs-scotland/an-expectant-public.html|title=An expectant public|work=60 years of NHS Scotland|year=2008|accessdate=2011-04-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928015840/http://www.60yearsofnhsscotland.co.uk/history/birth-of-nhs-scotland/an-expectant-public.html|archive-date=2008-09-28|url-status=dead}}</ref>