Physics
- Robert J. Van de Graaff develops the Van de Graaff generator.
- Oskar Klein discovers the Klein paradox.
- Oskar Klein and Y. Nishina derive the Klein-Nishina cross section for high energy photon scattering by electrons.
- Sir Nevill Francis Mott derives the Mott cross section for the Coulomb scattering of relativistic electrons.
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac and Werner Karl Heisenberg develop the quantum theory of ferromagnetism.
- Ernest O. Lawrence invents the cyclotron, for which he will receive the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Edwin H. Land patents Polaroid polarizing film.
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