1952 In Science
The year 1952 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Biology * August 1 – Around 9 o'clock AM Pacific Time Zone, the San Benedicto rock wren goes extinct as San Benedicto Island, its island home is smothered in a massive volcanic eruption. * August 14 – Alan Turing's paper "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" is published, putting forward a Reaction–diffusion system, reaction–diffusion hypothesis of pattern formation, considered a seminal piece of work in morphogenesis. * August 28 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley publish the Hodgkin–Huxley model of action potentials in neurons of the squid giant axon. * September 20 – Publication of the paper on the Hershey–Chase experiment showing conclusively that DNA, not protein, is the genetic material of bacteriophages. * October – Danish virologist Preben von Magnus publishes his observation of the von Magnus phenomenon producing defective interfering particles. * ...
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