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The year 1942 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy

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Biology

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Chemistry

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Computer science

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Mathematics

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  • December – Raphaël Salem and Donald C. Spencer publish a progression-free Salem–Spencer set of the numbers from to of size proportional to , for every .[6]

Physics

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Physiology and medicine

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Psychology

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Technology

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ Hey, J. S. (1975). The Radio Universe (2nd ed.). Oxford: Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-08-018760-9.
  2. ^ Westenhöfer, M. (1942). Der Eigenweg des Menschen. Mannstaedt & Co.
  3. ^ "Inventor of the Week Archive". Lemelson-MIT Program. September 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-09-30. Retrieved 2010-02-13.
  4. ^ "History of Kodak – 1930-1959". Kodak. Archived from the original on 2009-08-22. Retrieved 2012-01-10.
  5. ^ Ralston, Anthony; Meek, Christopher, eds. (1976). Encyclopedia of Computer Science (2nd ed.). pp. 488–489. ISBN 0-88405-321-0.
  6. ^ Salem, R.; Spencer, D. C. (December 1942). "On sets of integers which contain no three terms in arithmetical progression". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 28 (12). United States: 561–563. Bibcode:1942PNAS...28..561S. doi:10.1073/pnas.28.12.561. PMC 1078539. PMID 16588588.
  7. ^ Broad, William J. (30 October 2007). "Why They Called It the Manhattan Project". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
  8. ^ Jones, Vincent C. (1985). Manhattan, the Army and the atomic bomb. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army. pp. 41–43.
  9. ^ Klinefelter, H. F. jr; Reifenstein, E. C. jr; Albright, F. (1942). "Syndrome characterized by gynecomastia, aspermatogenesis without a-Leydigism and increased excretion of follicle-stimulating hormone". The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2 (11): 615–624. doi:10.1210/jcem-2-11-615.
  10. ^ Klinefelter, H. F. (September 1986). "Klinefelter's syndrome: historical background and development". Southern Medical Journal. 79 (9): 1089–93. doi:10.1097/00007611-198609000-00012. PMID 3529433.
  11. ^ Not published until 1946. Gilman, Alfred (1963). "The Initial Clinical Trial of Nitrogen Mustard". American Journal of Surgery. 105 (5): 574–578. doi:10.1016/0002-9610(63)90232-0. PMID 13947966.
  12. ^ Millikan, G. A. (1942). "The oximeter: an instrument for measuring continuously oxygen saturation of arterial blood in man". Review of Scientific Instruments. 13 (10): 434–444. Bibcode:1942RScI...13..434M. doi:10.1063/1.1769941.
  13. ^ #2,292,387.
  14. ^ Long, Tony (2011-08-11). "This Day in Tech: Aug. 11, 1942: Actress + Piano Player = New Torpedo". Wired. Retrieved 2012-09-26.
  15. ^ Angelucci, Enzo (1987). The American Fighter: the Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft from 1917 to the present. New York: Orion Books. p. 50.
  16. ^ Harpur, Brian (1991). A bridge to victory: the untold story of the Bailey Bridge. London: HMSO. p. 69. ISBN 0117726508.
  17. ^ Harford, Tim (2020). The Next Fifty things that made the modern economy. London: Bridge Street Press. pp. 151–2. ISBN 9781408712665.
  18. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022". Nobel Prize (Press release). The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 2022-10-04. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  19. ^ "Rostov Jewish Community Calls For Survivors, Children to Remember Zmievskaya Balka". Chabad Lubavitch. 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2012-01-04.