Editing 1935 in science

{{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] -->
{{Year nav topic5|1935|science}}
{{Science year nav|1935}}

The year '''1935 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events, listed below.

==Astronomy==
* May 14 – Opening of the [[Griffith Observatory]] in [[Los Angeles]].
* October 3 – Opening of the [[Hayden Planetarium]] in New York City.

==Chemistry==
* February 28–March 1 – Working with [[polyamide]]s to develop a viable new fiber for chemical company [[DuPont]], American chemist [[Gérard Berchet]] working under the direction of [[Wallace Carothers]] first synthesizes the [[synthetic polymer]] [[nylon]] at [[Wilmington, Delaware]].<ref>{{cite web|title=the history of nylon |url=http://www.caimateriali.org/index.php?id=32 |first=L. |last=Trossarelli |publisher=Club Alpino Italiano, Centro Studi Materiali e Tecniche |year=2010 |access-date=2012-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425044410/http://www.caimateriali.org/index.php?id=32 |archive-date=2012-04-25 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* April 13 – [[Dorothy Hodgkin]] publishes her first solo paper, on the methodology of [[X-ray crystallography]] of [[insulin]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=D.|last=Hodgkin|title=X-ray single crystal photographs of insulin|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|location=London|volume=135|year=1935|issue=3415|pages=591–2|doi=10.1038/135591a0|bibcode=1935Natur.135..591C|s2cid=4121225|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[Vitamin E]] is first isolated in a pure form by [[Gladys Anderson Emerson]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref>{{citation|title=Encyclopedia of World Scientists|page=211|isbn=978-1438118826|first=Elizabeth H.|last=Oakes|year=2007|chapter=Emerson, Gladys Anderson}}</ref>
* [[Eastman Kodak]] first market [[Kodachrome]] [[subtractive color]] [[reversal film]] as [[16 mm film|16 mm movie film]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uN4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA804|title=Color Movies Easy To Make With Aid Of New Film|journal=[[Popular Mechanics]]|date=June 1935|publisher=Hearst Magazines}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/704234/Range-of-color-Kodachrome-Basin-lives-up-to-name-it-got-by-accident.html |title=Range of Color: Kodachrome Basin Lives up to Name it Got by Accident |first=Carma |last=Wadley |work=[[Deseret News]] |date=1999-06-25 |access-date=2012-01-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100813100543/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/704234/Range-of-color-Kodachrome-Basin-lives-up-to-name-it-got-by-accident.html |archive-date=August 13, 2010 }}</ref> It has been invented by two professional musicians, [[Leopold Godowsky Jr.]] and [[Leopold Mannes]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124567093975236801|title=Kodak to Take Kodachrome Away|first=Robert|last=Tomsho|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=2009-06-23|page=B6|access-date=2012-01-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/233.html |title=Leopold Godowsky, Jr |publisher=Invent.org |access-date=2012-01-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111210164914/http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/233.html |archive-date=2011-12-10 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/223.html |title=Leopold Mannes |publisher=Invent.org |access-date=2012-01-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111210165936/http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/223.html |archive-date=2011-12-10 }}</ref>

==Ecology==
* English [[botanist]] [[Arthur Tansley]] introduces the concept of the [[ecosystem]].<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.2307/1930070|last=Tansley|first=A. G.|year=1935|title=The use and abuse of vegetational terms and concepts|journal=[[Ecology (journal)|Ecology]]|volume=16|issue=3|pages=284–307|jstor=1930070}}</ref><ref>The term ''ecosystem'' was coined by [[Arthur Roy Clapham]] at Tansley's request. {{cite journal|last=Willis|first=A. J.|year=1997|title=The Ecosystem: An Evolving Concept Viewed Historically|journal=[[Functional Ecology (journal)|Functional Ecology]]|volume=11|issue=2|pages=268–271|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2435.1997.00081.x|doi-access=}}</ref>

==Geology==
* [[Charles Richter]] and [[Beno Gutenberg]] develop the [[Richter magnitude scale]] for quantifying [[earthquake]]s.

==History of science and technology==
* American [[bacteriologist]] [[Hans Zinsser]] publishes ''[[Rats, Lice and History|Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which... deals with the life history of typhus fever]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=This Day in Science History – September 4 – Hans Zinsser|first=Anne Marie|last=Helmenstine|url=http://chemistry.about.com/b/2011/09/03/this-day-in-science-history-september-4-hans-zinsser.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302172130/http://chemistry.about.com/b/2011/09/03/this-day-in-science-history-september-4-hans-zinsser.htm|archive-date=2012-03-02|website=About.com|date=2011-09-03|access-date=2011-10-26}}</ref>
* [[Cornish Engines Preservation Committee]] formed to conserve the [[Levant Mine and Beam Engine|Levant Mine beam engine]] in [[Cornwall]], England.

==Mathematics==
* April 19 – [[Alonzo Church]] presents his paper "An unsolvable problem of elementary number theory", introducing his theorem on the ''[[Entscheidungsproblem]]'', to the [[American Mathematical Society]].<ref>''[[American Journal of Mathematics]]'' '''58''' (1935) pp. 345–363.</ref>
* [[Octav Onicescu]] and [[Gheorghe Mihoc]] develop the notion of the "chain with complete links" in [[probability theory]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Romanian Inventions|journal=The Reminder|issue=46|date=June 1983|page=7 (supplement)}}</ref>
* [[George Pólya]] develops counting techniques for graphs as algebra.<ref>{{cite book|first=Tony|last=Crilly|title=50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know|location=London|publisher=Quercus|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84724-008-8|page=117}}</ref>
* [[George K. Zipf]] proposes [[Zipf's law]] on [[probability distribution]].<ref>{{cite book|first=George K.|last=Zipf|year=1935|title=The Psychobiology of Language|publisher=Houghton-Mifflin}}</ref>

==Pharmacology==
* January 2 – [[IG Farben]] are granted a [[patent]] in Germany for the medical application of the first [[Sulfonamide (medicine)|sulfonamide]] [[prodrug]], Sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730; marketed as [[Prontosil]]). In February, [[Gerhard Domagk]] and others publish (in ''[[Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift]]'') the first clinical results on its properties as an [[antibiotic]], the first commercially available; and in November a team directed by [[Ernest Fourneau]] at the [[Pasteur Institute]] identify [[sulfanilamide]] as the active component.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lesch|first=J. E.|title=The first miracle drugs: how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine|pages=82–86|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-19-518775-5}}</ref>

==Physics==
* January 8 – [[A.C. Hardy]] patents the [[spectrophotometer]].<!-- should this be under chemistry instead? -->
* February 26 – [[Robert Watson-Watt]] and [[Arnold Frederic Wilkins|Arnold Wilkins]] first demonstrate the reflection of radio waves from an aircraft, near [[Daventry]] in England;<ref>{{cite web|publisher=IET|url=http://tv.theiet.org/technology/communications/219.cfm|title=Passive Covert Radar – Watson-Watt's Daventry Experiment Revisited|access-date=2011-06-07|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110513210855/http://tv.theiet.org/technology/communications/219.cfm|archive-date=13 May 2011|url-status=live|last1=Magazines|first1=Hearst|date=June 1935}}</ref> on June 17, the first radio detection of an aircraft by ground-based [[radar]] is made at [[Orford Ness]].
* [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], [[Boris Podolsky|Podolsky]], and [[Nathan Rosen|Rosen]] publish a paper arguing that quantum mechanics is not a complete physical theory (the [[EPR paradox]]).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.47.777 |title="Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?" |access-date=2011-04-10 }}</ref> Discussion of this introduces the '[[Schrödinger's cat]]' [[thought experiment]].<ref>{{cite journal|author-link=Erwin Schrödinger|first=Erwin|last=Schrödinger|title=Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik|trans-title=The present situation in quantum mechanics|journal=[[Naturwissenschaften]] |date=November 1935|doi=10.1007/BF01491891|volume =23| issue= 49| pages= 807–812|bibcode=1935NW.....23..807S|s2cid=206795705}}</ref>
* [[Jacques Yvon]] introduces ''S''-particle distribution functions in classical statistical mechanics;<ref>{{cite book|first=J.|last=Yvon|year=1935|title=Theorie Statistique des Fluides et l'Equation et l'Equation d'État|series=Actes scientifique et industrie, 203|location=Paris|publisher=Hermann}}</ref> they will later be included in the [[BBGKY hierarchy]].

==Physiology and medicine==
* January 28 – [[Iceland]] becomes the first country to legalize [[abortion]] on medical grounds.
* May – The hormone [[testosterone]] is first isolated and named by a team at [[Organon International|Organon]] in the Netherlands led by German scientist Ernst Laqueur.<ref>{{cite journal|author=David K. G.|author2=Dingemanse, E.|author3=Freud, J. L.|title=Über krystallinisches mannliches Hormon aus Hoden (Testosteron) wirksamer als aus harn oder aus Cholesterin bereitetes Androsteron|trans-title=On crystalline male hormone from testicles (testosterone) effective as from urine or from cholesterol|language=de|journal=[[Hoppe-Seyler's Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie]]|volume=233|issue=5–6|pages=281–83|date=May 1935|doi=10.1515/bchm2.1935.233.5-6.281}}</ref> In August, the [[chemical synthesis]] of testosterone from cholesterol is achieved by [[Adolf Butenandt]] and Günther Hanisch.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Butenandt|first1=A.|last2=Hanisch|first2=G.|title=Ũber die Umwandlung des Dehydroandrosterons in Androstenol-(17)-one-(3) (Testosterone): um Weg zur Darstellung des Testosterons auf Cholesterin (Vorlauf Mitteilung)|trans-title=The conversion of dehydroandrosterone into androstenol-(17)-one-3 (testosterone): a method for the production of testosterone from cholesterol (preliminary communication)|journal=[[Chemische Berichte]]|year=1935|volume=68|issue=9|pages=1859–62|language=de|doi=10.1002/cber.19350680937}}</ref> A week later, the [[Novartis|Ciba]] group in Zurich, [[Leopold Ruzicka]] and A. Wettstein, publish their synthesis of the hormone.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ruzicka|first1=L.|last2=Wettstein|first2=A.|title=Ũber die kristallinische Herstellung des Testikelhormons, Testosteron (Androsten-3-ol-17-ol)|trans-title=The crystalline production of the testicle hormone, testosterone (Androsten-3-ol-17-ol)|journal=[[Helvetica Chimica Acta]]|year=1935|volume=18|pages=1264–75|language=de|doi=10.1002/hlca.193501801176}}</ref>
* [[Ladislas J. Meduna]] discovers [[metrazol]] [[Electroconvulsive therapy|shock therapy]].
* First vaccine for [[yellow fever]].
* German physician Karl Matthes develops the first two-wavelength ear O<sub>2</sub> saturation meter.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Matthes|first=K.|title=Untersuchungen über die Sauerstoffsättigung des menschlichen Arterienblutes|trans-title=Studies on the Oxygen Saturation of Arterial Human Blood|journal=Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology|volume=179|issue=6|pages=698–711|doi=10.1007/BF01862691|year=1935|s2cid=24678464}}</ref>

==Technology==
* January 24 – The first [[beer can]] is sold in [[Richmond, Virginia]], United States, by the [[Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Maxwell|first=D. B. S.|title=Beer Cans: A Guide for the Archaeologist|journal=Historical Archaeology|year=1993|volume=27|issue=1|pages=95–113|doi=10.1007/BF03373561|jstor=25616219|s2cid=160267011}}</ref>
* June 12 – Conrad Bahr and George Pfefferle file a United States [[patent]] for an adjustable ratcheting [[torque wrench]].<ref>{{cite patent|country=US|number=2074079|title=Torque measuring wrench|pubdate=1937-03-16|inventor=Charles, Bahr Conrad & Pfefferle, George H.|url=http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2074079.html}}</ref>
* July 16 – The world's first [[parking meter]] is installed in [[Oklahoma City]] to a design by Holger George Thuesen and Gerald A. Hale [[patent]]ed by [[Carl Magee]].<ref>United States patent #2,118,318 for a "coin controlled parking meter" filed 13 May 1935.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofinglewood.org/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=466 |publisher=[[Inglewood, California]] |title=Inglewood Did Not Invent The Parking Meter |access-date=2012-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314022517/http://www.cityofinglewood.org/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=466 |archive-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pom.com/|title=POM Parking Meters|access-date=2012-02-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wN8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA519|title=Coin-in-Slot Parking Meter Brings Revenue to City|journal=[[Popular Mechanics]]|date=October 1935|page=519|last1=Magazines|first1=Hearst}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=70 Years Ago – Tick Tick Tick|journal=Smithsonian |page=18 |date=May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118574808780081653?mod=hps_us_editors_picks|last=Crossen|first=Cynthia|title=When Parallel Parking Was New and Meters Seemed Un-American|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=2007-07-30|access-date=2012-02-17}}</ref><ref>[[History (U.S. TV channel)|The History Channel]]. ''History's Lost and Found''.</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Chan|first=Sewell|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/20/nyregion/20cnd-meter.html?ex=1324270800&en=1b3d441d5381e8c5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|title=New York Retires Last Mechanical Parking Meter|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=2006-12-20|access-date=2012-02-17}}</ref>
* November 6
** [[Edwin H. Armstrong]] presents his paper on [[FM broadcasting]], "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation", to the New York section of the [[Institute of Radio Engineers]].
** First flight of the [[Hawker Hurricane]] British [[fighter aircraft]], designed by [[Sydney Camm]].
* [[Callender-Hamilton bridge]] patented by [[A. M. Hamilton]].
* Helical lobe [[rotary-screw compressor]] patented by [[Alf Lysholm]] of Ljungstroms Angturbin in Sweden.

==Events==
* September 16–21 – [[International Encyclopedia of Unified Science#First Congress for the Unity of Science .281935.29|First Congress for the Unity of Science]] is held at the [[Sorbonne (building)|Sorbonne]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stadler|first1=Friedrich|title=The Vienna Circle: studies in the origins, development, and influence of logical empiricism|date=2015|orig-year=2001|series=Vienna Circle Institute library|volume=4|edition=Abridged and revised|publisher=[[Springer Verlag]]|location=Cham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2rAlCQAAQBAJ|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-16561-5|isbn=9783319165608|oclc=911018849}}{{rp|171}}</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Nobel Prize]]s
** [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[James Chadwick]]
** [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Frédéric Joliot]], [[Irène Joliot-Curie]]
** [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] – [[Hans Spemann]]

==Births==
* January 26 – [[Andrew J. Stofan]], American astronautical engineer.
* January 29 – [[Roger Payne]] (died [[2023 in science|2023]]), American biologist and zoologist.<ref>{{cite book|author=Roger Searle Payne|title=The Acoustical Location of Prey by the Barn Owl (Tyto Alba).|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XyxBAAAAYAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Cornell University, Feb.}}</ref>
* February 15 – [[Roger B. Chaffee]] (died in accident [[1967 in science|1967]]), American astronaut.<ref>{{cite web |title=Roger B. Chaffee {{!}} American astronaut |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roger-B-Chaffee |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=19 January 2021 }}</ref>
* February 27 – [[Anne Treisman]], née Taylor (died [[2018 in science|2018]]), English-born psychologist.
* April 11 – [[Kazys Almenas]] (died [[2017 in science|2017]]), Lithuanian physicist, engineer and publisher.
* April 25 – [[Jim Peebles]], Canadian-born theoretical cosmologist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/peebles/facts/|title=James Peebles|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=August 5, 2021}}</ref>
* June 1 – [[Jacqueline Naze Tjøtta]] (died [[2017 in science|2017]]), French-born mathematician.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=1973|title=Tjøtta, Jacqueline Andrée Naze|encyclopedia=[[Hvem er hvem?]]|editor=Steenstrup, Bjørn|publisher=Aschehoug|location=Oslo|url=https://runeberg.org/hvemerhvem/1973/0564.html|page=564|language=no|access-date=2017-04-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.aftenposten.no/personalia/Nekrolog-Jacqueline-Andre-Naze-Tjotta-617311b.html|title=Nekrolog: Jacqueline Andreè Naze Tjøtta|work=[[Aftenposten]]|first1=Jarle|last1=Berntsen|first2=Per|last2=Lunde|language=no|date=2017-03-16|access-date=2017-04-09}}</ref>
* June 14 – [[Louise Hay (mathematician)|Louise Hay]], née Schmir (died [[1989 in science|1989]]), French-born American mathematician.
* June 25 – [[Charles Sheffield]] (died [[2002 in science|2002]]), English-born science fiction author and physicist.
* June 30 – [[Animesh Chakravorty]], Bengali Indian academic, chemistry professor.
* July 2 – [[Sergei Khrushchev]], Soviet, Russian and American control engineer (died [[2020 in science|2020]]).<ref>{{cite book|author=S. Gerovitch|title=Voices of the Soviet Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V9q_BwAAQBAJ&pg=PT81|date=16 December 2014|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|isbn=978-1-137-48179-5|pages=81}}</ref>
* July 7 – [[H. Franklin Bunn]], American physician, hematologist and biochemist.
* July 12 – [[Satoshi Ōmura]], Japanese biochemist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Heterocycles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GixFAQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Sendai Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry|page=7}}</ref>
* July 14 – [[Ei-ichi Negishi]], Japanese chemist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|title=Reports of the President and of the Treasurer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3JrWAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|page=77}}</ref>
* August 3 – [[Georgy Shonin]] (died [[1997 in science|1997]]), Ukrainian cosmonaut.
* August 26 – [[Karen Spärck Jones]] (died [[2007 in science|2007]]), English computer scientist.
* September 11 – [[Gherman Titov]] (died [[2000 in science|2000]]), Soviet cosmonaut.
* September 12 – [[Harvey J. Alter]], American virologist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]].
* September 19 – [[Milan Antal]]  (died [[1999 in science|1999]]), Slovak astronomer
* October 23 – [[JacSue Kehoe]], American neuroscientist 
* October 26 – [[Ora Mendelsohn Rosen]] (died [[1990 in science|1990]]), American biomedical researcher.
* October 31 – [[Ronald Graham]] (died [[2020 in science|2020]]), American mathematician.
* November 16 – [[Magdi Yacoub]], Egyptian-born [[cardiothoracic surgeon]].
* November 20 – [[Michael F. Ashby]], English materials engineer.
* December 27 – [[Stephan Tanneberger]] (died 2018), German oncologist, chemist.

==Deaths==
* February 15 – [[Bohuslav Brauner]], Czech chemist (born [[1855 in science|1855]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Collection des travaux chimiques de Tchécoslovaquie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LfkfAQAAMAAJ|year=1935|publisher=Tiskárna "Politika"|page=51}}</ref>
* March 7 – [[Mary Gage Day]], American physician (born [[1857 in science|1857]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Leonard|first=John W.|title=Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915|url=https://archive.org/details/womanswhoswhoam00leongoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/womanswhoswhoam00leongoog/page/n226 235]|edition=Public domain|year=1914|publisher=American commonwealth Company}}</ref>
* March 12 – [[Mihajlo Pupin]] (born [[1858 in science|1858]]), Serbian American [[physicist]].
* March 16 – [[John Macleod (physiologist)|John Macleod]] (born [[1876 in science|1876]]), Scottish physician and physiologist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Aberdeen University Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KdlZAAAAYAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Aberdeen University Press|page=290}}</ref>
* May 12 – [[Abraham Groves]] (born [[1847 in science|1847]]), Canadian surgeon.
* May 21 – [[Hugo de Vries]], Dutch botanist and geneticist (born [[1848 in science|1848]])<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Hall | first1 = A. D. | title = Hugo de Vries. 1848-1935 | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1935.0002 | journal = [[Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 1 | issue = 4 | pages = 371–373 | year = 1935 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
* July 3 – [[André Citroën]] (born [[1878 in science|1878]]), French automobile manufacturer.<ref>{{cite book | last = Reynolds | first = John | title = André Citroën : the man and the motor cars | publisher = Alan Sutton | location = Stroud | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780750912587 | page=203}}</ref>
* August 21 – [[Kintarô Okamura]] (born [[1867 in science|1867]]), Japanese [[phycologist]].
* September 19 – [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]], Russian rocket scientist (born [[1857 in science|1857]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Dan Golenpaul|title=Information Please Almanac, Atlas and Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVFaAAAAYAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Doubleday|isbn=978-0-395-51177-0|page=358}}</ref>
* September 28 – [[W. K. Dickson]] (born [[1860 in science|1860]]), British cinematographic pioneer.<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Spehr |first1=Paul C. |title=Dickson, William Kennedy Laurie |date=2011 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/46453 |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/46453 |access-date=21 April 2021}}</ref>
* December 4 – [[Charles Richet]] (born [[1850 in science|1850]]), French physiologist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Leroy | first = Francis | title = A century of Nobel Prizes recipients: chemistry, physics, and medicine | publisher = Marcel Dekker | location = New York | year = 2003 | isbn = 9780824708764 | page=243}}</ref>
* November 6 – [[Henry Fairfield Osborn]] (born [[1857 in science|1857]]), American [[paleontologist]].
* November 21 – [[Agnes Pockels]] (born [[1862 in science|1862]]), German [[chemist]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Creese | first = Mary | title = Ladies in the laboratory II : West European women in science, 1800-1900 : a survey of their contributions to research | publisher = Scarecrow Press | location = Lanham, Md | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780810849792 | page=148}}</ref>
* December 10 – [[Sir John Carden, 6th Baronet]] (born [[1892 in science|1892]]), English tank and vehicle designer (died in [[1935 SABENA Savoia-Marchetti S.73 crash]]).
* December 12 – [[Charles Loomis Dana]] (born [[1852 in science|1852]]), American [[neurologist]].
* December 13 – [[Victor Grignard]], French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born [[1881 in science|1871]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Academic American Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eY4xAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Grolier|isbn=978-0-7172-2047-2|page=363}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:1935 in science| ]]
[[Category:20th century in science]]
[[Category:1930s in science]]