1926 in science

Medicine

First vaccine for pertussis.
American biogerontologist Raymond Pearl publishes his book Alcohol and Longevity^[7] demonstrating that drinking alcohol in moderation is associated with greater longevity than either abstaining or drinking heavily.^[8]
Finnish physician Erik Adolf von Willebrand first describes Hereditär pseudohemofili ("Hereditary pseudohemophilia"),^[9] later known as Von Willebrand disease.
German-Jewish dermatologist Walter Freudenthal gives the earliest clear histopathological description of keratoma senile (actinic keratosis), distinguishing it from verruca senilis (seborrheic keratosis), in Breslau.^[10]
The description 'glioblastoma multiforme' is introduced by Percival Bailey and Harvey Cushing.^[11]

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Technology

January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates his pioneering greyscale mechanical television system (which he calls a "televisor") at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times.^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]
February – Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda publish the first description of the Yagi–Uda antenna.
June 28 – A patent for an electric percussion fuse for explosive projectiles, invented by Herbert Rühlemann, is filed in Germany.
July
- Alan A. Griffith publishes An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design, proposing an airfoil shape for turbine blades.^[17]^[18]
- Carl Zeiss, Jena, open a planetarium housed in a geodesic dome designed by Walther Bauersfeld.^[19]
November 23 – The aerosol spray can is patented by Erik Rotheim, a Norwegian chemical engineer.^[20]
The Einstein refrigerator is invented by Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard.
Ulster-born engineer Harry Ferguson is granted a British patent for his 'Duplex' hitch linking tractor and plough.
German engineer Andreas Stihl patents and develops an electric chainsaw.^[21]

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Births

January 11 – Lev Dyomin (died 1998), Soviet Russian cosmonaut.
January 29 – Abdus Salam (died 1996), Punjabi theoretical physicist.^[23]
February – David Medved (died 2009), American physicist.
March 7 – Margaret Weston (died 2021), English electrical engineer and Director of the Science Museum, London.
April 3 – Gus Grissom (died 1967), American astronaut.^[24]
May 1 – Eva Siracká (died 2023), Slovak physician
May 8 – David Attenborough, English broadcaster and naturalist.
May 17 – Franz Sondheimer (died 1981), German-born British chemist
June 19 – Erna Schneider Hoover, American computer technologist.
June 23 – Lawson Soulsby (died 2017), English parasitologist.
July 27 – W. David Kingery (died 2000), American materials scientist specializing in ceramic materials.
July 31
- Bernard Nathanson (died 2011), American medical doctor and activist.
- Hilary Putnam (died 2016), American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist.
August 11 – Sir Aaron Klug (died 2018), Lithuanian-born British biophysicist and chemist.
August 19 – George Daniels (died 2011), English horologist.
September 4 – George William Gray (died 2013), Scottish chemist, discoverer of stable liquid crystal materials leading to the development of liquid-crystal displays.
September 7 – Donald Pinkel (died 2022), American pediatric hematologist and oncologist.
September 15 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician.
October 2 – Michio Suzuki (died 1998), Japanese mathematician.
October 12 – Ruth L. Kirschstein (died 2009), American pathologist and science administrator at the National Institutes of Health.
October 31 – Narinder Singh Kapany (died 2020), Punjabi-born physicist.
November 29 – Dilhan Eryurt (died 2012), Turkish astrophysicist.
December 10 – Neena Schwartz (died 2018), American endocrinologist.

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