Scientific Advancements of the Harlem Renaissance

1. Scientific Advancements of the Harlem Renaissance (1920- 1930) Kyle S Scott C Terry L

2. Just to name a few... 1920 Rutherford identifies the proton; Playwright Karel Capek coins the term “robot” Hermann Rorschach uses the inkblot test to determine personality; Banting and Best isolate insulin 1921 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of King Tutankhamen, Roy Chapman Andrews finds the first fossilized dinosaur eggs 1922 1923 Freud publishes the German edition of The Ego and the Id Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies; Police begin to use the lie detector in criminal cases; Oparin theorizes about the origin of life from a “primordial soup” in The Origin of Life 1924

3. 1925 Scopes is found guilty of teaching the theory of evolution in Tennessee 1926 Herman Joseph Muller finds that X-rays induce genetic mutation in the fruit fly Davidson Black identifies the species Homo erectus; Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw develop the iron lung; Heisenberg publishes the uncertainty principle 1927 Margaret Mead describes primitive society in Coming of Age in Samoa; Dirac applies the special theory of relativity to the electron and predicts the existence of antimatter; Baird demonstrates color television 1928 Hubble announces that the universe is expanding; Motonori Matuyama finds that the Earth’s magnetic field reverses occasionally 1929 1930 Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto

4. Influences of Science - greatly reduce the moral significance of the human and the individual (two main ideas of Romanticism) - new found Realism helped inspire/create the Lost Generation - main focus of the Lost Generation: emphasis on insignificance of society and life - advancements support the idea of human insignificance by: - expanding the known universe - classifying human minds by behavior - defining the process of life as a series of repeating cycles