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1928 — Howard Percy Robertson briefly mentions that Vesto Slipher's redshift measurements combined with brightness measurements of the same galaxies indicate a redshift-distance relation Penicillin discovery by Alexander Fleming Frederick Griffith discovers that hereditary material from dead bacteria can be incorporated into live bacteria Positron predicted by Dirac Geiger–Müller counter Raman scattering effect -- 26 January 1928 discovery of 1155 Aenna 22 February 1928 discovery of 1156) Kira 26 February 1928 discovery of 1091 Spiraea 21 July 1928 discovery of 1096 Reunerta 10 August 1928 discovery of 1110 Jaroslawa 11 August 1928 discovery of 1097 Vicia 15 August 1928 discovery of 1112 Polonia and 1113 Katja 5 September 1928 discovery of 1098 Hakone 11 September 1928 discovery of 1120 Cannonia and 1121 Natascha 13 September 1928 discovery of 1099 Figneria 17 September 1928 discovery of 1122 Neith 21 September 1928 discovery of 1123 Shapleya 22 September 1928 discovery of 1100 Arnica and 1101 Clematis 6 October 1928 discovery of 1124 Stroobantia 5 November 1928 discovery of 1102 Pepita 9 November 1928 discovery of 1103 Sequoia 17 November 1928 discovery of 1114 Lorraine 9 December 1928 discovery of 1104 Syringa 13 December 1928 discovery of 1115 Sabauda --- 20 February 1928, Death of Antonio Abetti in Arcetri / Florence, Italy 21 March 1928 Death of Edward Walter Maunder, in London, England, 2 April 1928 Death of Theodore William Richards 25 June 1928 Birth of Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov in Moscow,USSR 30 August 1928 Death of Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien 1928 Birth of Michael Philip Candy 1928 Birth of Tihiro Ohkawa -- Nobel Prize Physics to Sir Owen Willans Richardson for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him. Chemistry to Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus "for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins" Physiology or Medicine: to Charles Jules Henri Nicolle "for his work on typhus"
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