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The year 1938 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Biology 3 Chemistry 4 Awards 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Astronomy

• June 28 - A 450 metric ton meteorite struck the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania

[edit] Biology

• December 22 - Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovers a Coelacanth, formerly only seen in fossils millions of years old, in a fisherman's catch in South Africa.

[edit] Chemistry

• April 6 - Roy J. Plunkett of DuPont accidentally discovers polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon)

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Enrico Fermi
  • Chemistry - Richard Kuhn
  • Medicine - Corneille Jean François Heymans
• Copley Medal: Niels Bohr
• Wollaston Medal for geology: Maurice Lugeon

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