On 31 May 1939 she was awarded the Honorary Freedom of the Borough.

* Bradford Washburn, photographer, director of the Boston Museum of Science from 1939 – 1980 and Honorary Director ( a lifetime appointment ) 1985 – 2007

Murphy was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Law degree by the University of Michigan in 1939.

* Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( 1939 );

He was the founder and head of the Prague Stomatology Clinic until the German occupation in 1939, a member of the Bohemian Academy, a member of International Association for Dental Research ( IADR ), whose Honorary Vice-President he became 1933 – 1935 ), and co-founder of its Prague Section in 1932.

Relieved from active duty on 25 June 1919, he remained in the Naval Reserve until transferred to the Honorary Retired List on 1 September 1939.

His invention of the sport of basketball, brought him back to Montreal, just before his 1939 death to receive the Honorary Doctor of Divinity.

Vidya Jothi Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe ( Sinhala: නල ි න ් චන ් ද ්‍ ර ව ි ක ්‍ රමස ිං හ ), FIMA, FRAS, FRSA ( born 20 January 1939 ) is Professor at Cardiff University and Honorary Professor at the University of Buckingham.

He was Honorary Colonel of the 4th Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders from 1939 – 1945, and was a Member of Aberdeen County Council from 1945-1955.

* Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1939

The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.

The novel is the basis of the Academy Award – winning 1939 film starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.

The country secured some boundary revisions from 1938 to 1941: In 1938 the First Vienna Award gave back territory from Czechoslovakia, in 1939 Hungary occupied Carpatho-Ukraine.

* June 10 – Hattie McDaniel, Actress, The first African-American woman to win an Academy Award in 1939 ( d. 1952 )

His annual contributions for the Boy Scouts ' calendars between 1925 and 1976 ( Rockwell was a 1939 recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America ), were only slightly overshadowed by his most popular of calendar works: the " Four Seasons " illustrations for Brown & Bigelow that were published for 17 years beginning in 1947 and reproduced in various styles and sizes since 1964.

Wright received several different literary awards during his lifetime including the Spingarn Medal in 1941, the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1939, and the Story Magazine Award.

On 24 May 1939 the Fleet Air Arm was returned to Admiralty control under the " Inskip Award " ( named after the Minister for Co-ordination of Defence who was overseeing Britain's re-armament programme ) and renamed the Air Branch of the Royal Navy.

Ruggles of Red Gap was adapted as a radio play on the July 10, 1939 episode of Lux Radio Theater, the December 17, 1945 episode of The Screen Guild Theater and the June 8, 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater, all with Charles Laughton and Charlie Ruggles reprising their film parts.

At the 11th Academy Awards held on February 23, 1939, La Grande Illusion became the first foreign language film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

* John Ford won the 1939 New York Film Critics Award as Best Director.

After working exclusively in dramatic films, Garbo turned to comedy with Ninotchka ( 1939 ), which earned her a fourth Academy Award nomination, and Two-Faced Woman ( 1941 ).

She won the National Board of Review Best Acting Award for Camille, 1936, Ninotchka, 1939, and Two-Faced Woman, 1941.

He was also nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Casablanca ( 1942 ), Mr. Skeffington ( 1944 ), and Notorious ( 1946 ).

Several of these were nominated for an Academy Award, including The Pointer ( 1939 ), Squatter's Rights ( 1946 ), Pluto's Blue Note ( 1947 ), and Mickey and the Seal ( 1948 ).

Her achievements were recognized and honored with many prizes, including the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1939 ; University of Pennsylvania Glee Club Award of Merit in 1973 ; the United Nations Peace Prize, New York City's Handel Medallion, and the Congressional Gold Medal, all in 1977 ; Kennedy Center Honors in 1978 ; the George Peabody Medal in 1981 ; the National Medal of Arts in 1986 ; and a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1991.

Her 1939 nomination marked the first time a British actress in a British film had been nominated for an Academy Award.

It was her role as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O ' Hara ( Vivien Leigh ), and scoffs at Rhett Butler ( Clark Gable ), that won McDaniel the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first black American to win an Oscar.

James Cagney won the 1939 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his role.

Garfield was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Four Daughters in 1939 and Best Actor for Body and Soul in 1948.

His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), and Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.

Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron ( 1931 ), Theodora Goes Wild ( 1936 ), The Awful Truth ( 1937 ), Love Affair ( 1939 ) and I Remember Mama ( 1948 ).

Early in 1939, Odilo Globocnik, the Gauleiter of Vienna, established SS headquarters for all of Poland.

W. E. Ford, for example, continued to supply data on the occurrence of minerals until his death in 1939.

* 1939 Tea for Three ( dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident )

A grant application to build a proof of concept prototype was submitted in March 1939 to the Agronomy department which was also interested in speeding up computation for economic and research analysis.

Domagk received the 1939 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his efforts.

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

His reputation grew in the USA following the critical reception of his design for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, described by Frank Lloyd Wright as a " work of genius ".

In 1939 Grothendieck went to France and lived in various camps for displaced persons with his mother, first at the Camp de Rieucros, and subsequently lived for the remainder of the war in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he was sheltered and hidden in local boarding-houses or pensions.

His 1939 memorial article for Sapir, " The Relation of Habitual Thought And Behavior to Language ", in particular has been taken to be Whorf's definitive statement of the issue, and is his most frequently quoted piece.

The rule was again adopted in 1939, only to be eliminated again in 1940, before being adopted for the last time in 1954.

* Jack Billion ( born 1939 ), the 2006 Democratic Party candidate for governor of South Dakota

Notable examples of this period are Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta ( 1936 ) and Divertimento for String Orchestra BB 118 ( 1939 ).

The notation was introduced in 1939 by Paul Dirac and is also known as Dirac notation, though the notation has precursors in Grassmann's use of the notation for his inner products nearly 100 years previously.

But in 1939, Robert Oppenheimer and others predicted that neutron stars above approximately three solar masses ( the Tolman – Oppenheimer – Volkoff limit ) would collapse into black holes for the reasons presented by Chandrasekhar, and concluded that no law of physics was likely to intervene and stop at least some stars from collapsing to black holes.

In fact, far from it being a dedicated panzer spearhead arm, less than 15 percent of the Luftwaffe was designed for close support of the army in 1939.

During the First World War the German army used horses for logistics, 1. 4 million of them, in the 1939 – 45 war it used 2. 7 million horses.

The main legislative framework for the Building Society was the Building Society Act of 1874, with subsequent amending legislation in 1894, 1939 ( see Coney Hall ), and 1960.

The book did not attempt to directly counter or deal with the documents published in Nazi-Soviet Relations and rather, focused upon Western culpability for the outbreak of war in 1939.

Furthermore, while Neuromancer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s narrator may have had an unusual " voice " for science fiction, much older examples can be found: Gibson's narrative voice, for example, resembles that of an updated Raymond Chandler, as in his novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 ).