Deaths
- February 29 - George Claridge Druce (born 1850), English botanist.
- March 14 - George Eastman (born 1854), American photography pioneer.
- April 3 - Wilhelm Ostwald (born 1853), Baltic German chemist.
- April 20 - Giuseppe Peano (born 1858), Italian mathematician.
- June 21 - Marshall "Major" Taylor (born 1878), African American racing cyclist.
- July 9 - King Camp Gillette (born 1855), American inventor.
- July 22 - Reginald Fessenden (born 1866), Canadian American radio broadcasting pioneer.
- August 9 - John Charles Fields (born 1863), Canadian mathematician.
- September 16 - Sir Ronald Ross (born 1857), British physiologist.
- November 12 - Sir Dugald Clerk (born 1854), Scottish-born mechanical engineer.
Read more about this topic: 1932 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)