1941 in science

Events

January 9th: CBS makes a first demonstration of Télévision color with transmission on line of the images 1500 away meters.
February 12th: First human experimentation of the Penicillin in Great Britain.
Mars:

G.W. Beadle (geneticist) and Edward Tatum (biochemist) publish the result of their work of Génétique completed on a mushroom, the Neusospora fouled . They highlight the mode of chemical action of genes.
the Japanese researchers Yoshibumi and Shigemoto publish in the Japanese pediatric Newspaper an article showing that the Viral hepatitis is transmitted by saliva and blood.
the cross Section of fission of Uranium 235 in fast neutrons is measured with the institute Carnegie
Envoi of the report/ratio of the Commission MAUD with Lyman Briggs which puts it under key.
Tests of the first experimental radar airborne American

April 14th: Lyman Briggs receives a note Eugene Wigner which alerts on the activity of Germany as regards nuclear research
May 15th: The Commission MAUD submits its final reports on the possibility of the military and civil nuclear power, and dissolves.
May 17th: Positive report/ratio of Compton and the National Academy off Sciences on the possibility of the civilian nuclear.
June 28th: Foundation of the OSRD and inclusion of NDRC
July 1st

commercial television in black and white is inaugurated with the the United States. 22 transmitting stations are installed.
the Advisory committee for uranium is integrated into NDRC

a note published in Scientific American gives an account of the success of the experimentation on 446 patients of new a Antibiotique, the sulphadiazine, synthesized in 1940, effective in the treatment of the respiratory infections.
the Swedish physicist Bengt Edlen publishes an article on the constitution of the solar crown, which contains iron, calcium, strongly ionized nickel, at a temperature of a million degrees Celsius.

August 31st: Marcus Oliphant lands in the USA to know where the report/ratio of the Commission MAUD passed (remained under key)
September 30th: Invention of the Broaching machine.
December 5th: The German engineer Konrad Zuse finishes the construction of the first operational computer, which has an integrated mechanism of control for mathematical calculations, a memory and various programs.

the Cortisone is employed for the first time.
Invention of the bomb aerosol by L.D. Goodhue.
With the Canada, developed of portable refrigerating units intended for the supply ships bringing of the fresh meat and the perishable goods to the British, isolated by the maritime blockade from Germany.
Development of a process to produce powder eggs and potato flakes.
Wilbur Franks of the Université of Toronto invents the first G-suit in the world, containing rubber bearings filled with water and laced very tight on the legs, protecting the pilots from the black Voile caused by the accelerative forces which drive out the blood of the brain and the heart during tight turns.
Developed with first Centrifugal machine for human, allowing the researchers to work out systems Anti-g of point and to teach with the pilots the techniques allowing to resist the immense accelerative forces (G) (or Load factor) which they undergo in vol.

February 25th: Accidental death with Murgrave-harbor (Newfoundland) of the doctor and Canadian physiologist Grant Banting.
November 18th, Berlin: Walther Hermann Nernst, physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize of Chemistry in 1920.
December 11th: Picardy Emile, Mathematician French.

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