Editing 1943 in science (section)

==Physiology and medicine==
* April 16–19 – [[Albert Hofmann]] discovers the [[hallucinogenic]] properties of [[lysergic acid diethylamide]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hallucinogenic-effects-of-lsd-discovered|title=Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered|publisher=The History Channel|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311115603/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hallucinogenic-effects-of-lsd-discovered|archive-date=2014-03-11}}</ref>
* [[Leo Kanner]] of the [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]] first publicly adopts the term ''[[autism]]'' in its modern sense in English in referring to ''early infantile autism''.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kanner|first=L.|title=Autistic disturbances of affective contact|journal=Nervous Child|volume=2|pages=217–50|year=1943|issue=4|pmid=4880460}} Reprinted in: {{cite journal|year=1968|journal=Acta Paedopsychiatrica|volume=35|issue=4|pages=100–36|pmid=4880460|author =<!-- Pacify Citation bot. -->|title=none}}</ref>
* [[Warren Sturgis McCulloch|Warren S. McCulloch]] and [[Walter Pitts]] publish "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" in ''Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics'', considered seminal in [[neural network]] theory.<ref>{{cite web|first=Ken|last=Aizawa|year=2004|url=http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/mcculloch.html|title=McCulloch, Warren Sturgis|website=Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind|access-date=2011-12-03}}</ref>
* Dr. [[Willem Johan Kolff|Willem J. Kolff]] builds the first [[dialysis machine]], in the [[History of the Netherlands (1939–1945)|occupied Netherlands]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Moore|first=Carrie A.|url=http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705284493,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217040141/http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705284493,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 17, 2009|title=Kolff, 'father of artificial organs,' dies at 97|newspaper=[[Deseret News]]|location=Salt Lake City|date=2009-02-11|access-date=2012-06-13}}</ref>
* New Zealand-born British [[anaesthetist]] [[Robert Macintosh]] introduces his new curved [[laryngoscope]] blade for [[tracheal intubation]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=R. R.|last=Macintosh|title=A new laryngoscope|journal=[[The Lancet]]|volume=241|issue=6233|pages=205|year=1943|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(00)89390-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Scott|first1=J.|last2=Baker|first2=P. A.|title=How did the Macintosh laryngoscope become so popular?|journal=Pediatric Anesthesia|volume=19|issue=Supplement 1|pages=24–9|year=2009|pmid=19572841|doi=10.1111/j.1460-9592.2009.03026.x|s2cid=6345531|doi-access=free}}</ref>