The year 1936 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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- January 8 – Robert May, Australian-born Government Chief Scientific Adviser (United Kingdom) (died 2020).
- January 10
- January 27 – Barry Barish, American gravitational physicist, Nobel Prize winner.
- March 16 – Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian-American MRI practitioner.
- March 24 – David Suzuki, Canadian geneticist and populariser of science.
- April 1 – Abdul Qadeer Khan (died 2021), Pakistani nuclear physicist.[22]
- April 17 – Meemann Chang, Chinese paleontologist.
- June 29 – Leon O. Chua, American electrical engineer and computer scientist.
- August 1 – W. D. Hamilton (died 2000), English evolutionary biologist, widely recognised as one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century.[23]
- August 17 – Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist, Presidential Medal of Freedom laureate.
- September 17 – Gerald Guralnik (died 2014), American physicist most famous for his co-discovery of the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson.
- November 25 – John Taylor, English inventor.
- December 22 – James Burke, British historian and populariser of science.
- December 31 – Szilveszter E. Vizi, Hungarian physician, neuroscientist and pharmacologist.
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Meijer, C. S. (1936). "Über Whittakersche bzw. Besselsche Funktionen und deren Produkte". Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (2) (in German). 18 (4): 10–39. JFM 62.0421.02. Fanconi, G.; Uehlinger, E.; Knauer, C. (1936). "Das coeliakiesyndrom bei angeborener zysticher pankreasfibromatose und bronchiektasien". Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift. 86: 753–756.
Hogg, Michael A.; Vaughan, Graham M. (2005). Social Psychology (4th ed.). Harlow: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0273686992. Paddle, Robert (2000). The Last Tasmanian Tiger: the History and Extinction of the Thylacine. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-53154-3.