American Decades
Deaths
Florence Bascom, 83, geologist who built the geology department at Bryn Mawr College to prominence, 18 June 1945.
Franz Boaz, 87, anthropologist who established the discipline of anthropology in the United States and built Columbia University into a center for anthropological research and training, 22 December 1942.
Annie Jump Cannon, 78, astronomer who worked on the classification of bright southern stars, 13 April 1941.
George Washington Carver, 79, agricultural chemist who introduced the lucrative peanut crop to the South and developed many by-products, such as peanut oil, and who received the Roosevelt Medal in 1939, 5 January 1943.
Charles B. Davenport, 78, geneticist who emphasized hereditarian explanation and eugenics in the early decades of the twentieth century, 18 February 1944.
Robert Hutchings Goddard, 63, physicist who designed the first successful...
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1940's Science and Technology
The 1940's
