1940 in science

See also: 1939 in science, other events of 1940, 1941 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Aeronautics 2 Chemistry 3 Physics 4 Births 5 Deaths

Aeronautics

• First flight of the P-51 Mustang

• February 27 - The radioactive isotope carbon-14 is discovered by Martin Karmen and Ram Ruben
• Astatine synthesized by Corson, MacKenzie, and Segre
• Neptunium, the first transuranic element, synthesized by McMillan and Abelson

• January 5 - FM radio demonstrated to the FCC for the first time
• Magnetron invented by John Randall and Harry Boot

• November 26 - Enrico Bombieri, mathematician