- 1902 in science
The year 1902 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Aeronautics
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May 15 -Lyman Gilmore claims to have flown his steam-poweredfixed-wing aircraft , although his proof was supposedly destroyed in a 1935 fire.Archaeology
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Spyridon Stais finds theAntikythera mechanism Paleontology
*Remains of the second "Tyrannosaurus rex" specimen, first recognized as such, are excavated by
Barnum Brown .Chemistry
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Auguste Verneuil develops theVerneuil process for making synthetic rubies.Photography
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Arthur Korn devises practicalphototelegraphy technology (reduction of photographic images to data bits which can transmitted by wire to other locations)Physics
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James Jeans finds the length scale required for gravitational perturbations to grow in a static nearly homogeneous medium
*Philipp Lenard observes that maximum photoelectron energies are independent of illuminating intensity but depend on frequency
*Gilbert N. Lewis develops thecubical atom atomic model.
*Theodor Svedberg suggests that fluctuations in molecular bombardment cause theBrownian motion Physiology
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William Bayliss andErnest Starling discover the first hormone,secretin .Awards
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Nobel Prize s
** Physics -Hendrik Lorentz ,Pieter Zeeman
** Chemistry -Hermann Emil Fischer
** Medicine -Ronald Ross Births
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February 10 -Walter Houser Brattain (d. 1987),physicist .
*August 8 -Paul Dirac (d. 1984), physicist.
*Zhang Yuzhe (d. 1986), Chineseastronomer .Deaths
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April 12 -Alfred Cornu (b. 1841), physicist.
*September 5 -Rudolf Virchow (b. 1821),pathologist andbiologist .
*December 22 -Richard von Krafft-Ebing (b. 1840),sexologist .
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