Biology
- January 10 – Last confirmed specimen of a Caspian Tiger is killed, in the valley of the Sumbar River in the Kopet Dag Mountains of Turkmenistan.
- Daniel I. Arnon demonstrates in the laboratory the chemical function of photosynthesis in chloroplasts.
- Eduard Paul Tratz and Heinz Heck propose the species name Bonobo for what was previously known as the pygmy chimpanzee.
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