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The year 1937 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Astronomy

• June 8 - First total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality in over 800 years; visible in the Pacific and Peru.

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Clinton Joseph Davisson, George Paget Thomson
  • Chemistry - Walter Haworth, Paul Karrer
  • Medicine - Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrapolt
• Copley Medal - Henry Dale
• Wollaston Medal for geology - Waldemar Lindgren

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• July 20 - Guglielmo Marconi (b. 1874), inventor.