The year 1937 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy

• June 8 - First total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality in over 800 years; visible in the Pacific and Peru.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
• Physics - Clinton Joseph Davisson, George Paget Thomson
• Chemistry - Walter Haworth, Paul Karrer
• Medicine - Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrapolt
• Copley Medal - Henry Dale
• Wollaston Medal for geology - Waldemar Lindgren

Births

Deaths

• July 20 - Guglielmo Marconi (b. 1874), inventor.