The year 1930 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
January 15 – The Moon moves into perigee at the same time as the lunar phase reaches its fullest. This is the closest Moon distance to Earth (at 356,397 km) in 23 years and it will not come closer until 2257.[1]
^Carles, J. (1939). "Les lentilles" [Lentils]. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Lyon (in French). 8 (6): 146–153. Retrieved 2019-01-27. Nous utilisons le remarquable ouvrage d'Helena BARULINA: Lentils of U.S.S.R. and of other countries, 1930...Le spécialiste des Lentilles est Mme Helena BARULINA. Dés 1930, elle publiait, en supplément au Bulletin of Applied Botany, un volume de plus de 300 pages sur les Lentilles (Lentils of U.S.S.R. and of other countries) quelle a résumé, en 1937, dans le tome IV de la Flore des Plantes cultivées.
^Smith, John K. (1985). "The Ten-Year Invention: Neoprene and Du Pont Research, 1930–1939". Technology and Culture. 26: 34–55. JSTOR3104528.
^Struve, Vasilij Vasil'evič; Turaev, Boris (1930). "Mathematischer Papyrus des Staatlichen Museums der Schönen Künste in Moskau". Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik; Abteilung A. Vol. 1. Berlin: Springer.