The year 1936 in science and technology had many significant events, including those listed below.

Chemistry

• February 4 - Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.

Geology

• Inge Lehmann argues that the Earth's molten interior has a solid core.

Computer science

• May 28 - Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Victor Franz Hess, Carl David Anderson
  • Chemistry - Peter Debye
  • Medicine - Sir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi

Births

• January 10 - Robert Wilson, physicist, radio astronomer.

Deaths

• April 8 - Robert Barany (b. 1876), Nobel Prize winner in medicine.