The year 1938 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
- Ștefan Odobleja begins publication of his Psychologie consonantiste in Paris, seen in Romania as originating the study of cybernetics.
- January 2
- January 10 – Donald Knuth, American computer scientist and mathematician
- January 28 – Tomas Lindahl, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- March 5 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist (d. 2011)
- March 7 – David Baltimore, American biologist, university administrator and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- March 31 – Dennis H. Klatt, American pioneer of speech synthesis (d. 1988)
- April 3 – John Darley, American social psychologist
- April 25 – Roger Boisjoly, American rocket engineer (d. 2012)
- May 11 – Fritz-Albert Popp, German biophysicist
- May 16 – Ivan Sutherland, American computer scientist and Turing Award winner
- June 29 – David Barker, English epidemiologist (d. 2013)
- July 2 – C. Kumar N. Patel, Indian electrical engineer
- July 19 – Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
- September 3 – Ryōji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate
- September 17 – Alec Broers, Baron Broers, British electrical engineer
- September 26 – Alan Andrew Watson, Scottish astrophysicist
- September 30 – Alfred Cuschieri, Malta-born laparoscopic surgeon
- October 4 – Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 22 – Michael Berridge, Rhodesian-born British physiologist and biochemist (d. 2020)
- November 7 – Edgardo Gomez, Filipino biologist (d. 2019)
- December 7 – George Hockham, English electrical engineer (d. 2013)
- December 23 – Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
- ^ Ellis, Richard (2004). No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species. New York: Harper Perennial. pp. 311–312. ISBN 0-06-055804-0.
- ^ Bawden, F. C.; Pirie, N. W. (1938). "Crystalline Preparations of Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus". British Journal of Experimental Pathology. 19: 251. PMC 2065153.
- ^ US Patent 2,130,523 Linear polyamides suitable for spinning into strong pliable fibers; US Patent 2,130,947 Diamine dicarboxylic acid salt and US Patent 2,130,948 Synthetic fibers. Trossarelli, L. (2010). "The history of nylon". Club Alpino Italiano, Centro Studi Materiali e Tecniche. Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ^ Hofmann, Albert (1980). LSD — My Problem Child. McGraw–Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-029325-0.
- ^ Talk given by Horst Zuse to the Computer Conservation Society at the Science Museum (London) on 18 November 2010.
- ^ Benford, Frank (1938). "The Law of Anomalous Numbers". Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 78 (4): 551–572. JSTOR 984802.
- ^ Turing, A. M. (1939). "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Series 2. 45 (1): 161–228. doi:10.1112/plms/s2-45.1.161. hdl:21.11116/0000-0001-91CE-3.
- ^ "Turing's Princeton Dissertation". Turing Centennial Celebration. Princeton University. 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-05.
- ^ Pearl, R. (1938). "Tobacco Smoking and Longevity". Science. 87 (2253): 216–217. Bibcode:1938Sci....87..216P. doi:10.1126/science.87.2253.216. PMID 17813231.
- ^ Cordry, Harold V. (2001). Tobacco: a reference handbook. Contemporary world issues. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0874369670.
- ^ Gross, Robert; Hubbard, John (1939). "Surgical Ligation of a Patent Ductus Arteriosus". Journal of the American Medical Association. 112 (8): 729. doi:10.1001/jama.1939.02800080049011. ISSN 0002-9955.
- ^ Andersen, Dorothy Hansine (1938). "Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas and its relation to celiac disease: a clinical and pathological study". American Journal of Diseases of Children. 56 (2): 344–399. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1938.01980140114013.
- ^ Asperger, H. (1938). "The psychically abnormal child". Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift (in German). 51: 1314–7.
- ^ Reynolds, L. A. (2006). Early Development of Total Hip Replacement. Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. ISBN 978-085484-111-0.
- ^ Turner, H. H. (1938). "A syndrome of infantilism, congenital webbed neck and cubitus valgus". Endocrinology. 23 (5): 566–74. doi:10.1210/endo-23-5-566.
- ^ Ives, Herbert E.; Stilwell, G. R. (1938). "An Experimental Study of the Rate of a Moving Atomic Clock". Journal of the Optical Society of America. 28 (7): 215–19. Bibcode:1938JOSA...28..215I. doi:10.1364/JOSA.28.000215. Retrieved 2011-09-23.
- ^ Rabi, I.I.; Zacharias, J.R.; Millman, S.; Kusch, P. (1938). "A New Method of Measuring Nuclear Magnetic Moment". Physical Review. 53 (4): 318–327. Bibcode:1938PhRv...53..318R. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.53.318.
- ^ Vlasov, A. A. (1938). "On Vibration Properties of an Electron Gas". Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics (in Russian). 8 (3): 444–70. Retrieved 2011-09-23.