- 1906 in science
The year 1906 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.cientific journals
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African Invertebrates begins its century-long history.Chemistry
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Charles Barkla discovers that each element has a characteristicX-ray and that the degree of penetration of these X-rays is related to theatomic weight of the element
*Mikhail Tsvet discovers thechromatography technique for organic compound separationGeology
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April 18 - The1906 San Francisco earthquake , an est. 7.9 on the Richter scale and centered on theSan Andreas fault , strikes nearSan Francisco, California . Theearthquake and fire destroy over 80% of the buildings in the city, and kill as many as 6,000 people.
* Richard Oldham argues that theEarth has a molten interiorPhysics
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Walther Nernst presents a formulation of thethird law of thermodynamics Medicine
* BCG (Bacilli-Calmette-Guerin) immunization for
Tuberculosis first developed
*Frederick Hopkins suggests the existence ofvitamin s and suggests that a lack of vitamins causesscurvy andrickets
*Clemens Peter von Pirquet withBéla Schick , coins the term "allergy " to describe hypersensitive reactions.Technology
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Reginald Fessenden makes the firstradio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.Awards
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Nobel Prize s
** Physics - SirJ. J. Thomson
** Chemistry -Henri Moissan
** Medicine -Camillo Golgi ,Santiago Ramón y Cajal Births
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January 10 -Grigore Moisil (d. 1973), mathematician
*January 11 -Albert Hofmann , (d. 2008)chemist
*February 4 -Clyde Tombaugh (d. 1997), astronomer
*April 28 -Kurt Gödel (d. 1978), mathematician
*July 2 -Hans Bethe (d. 2005), Nobel Prize Physicist
*August 19 -Philo T. Farnsworth (d. 1971),television pioneer.
*September 4 -Max Delbrück (d. 1981),biologist .
*November 3 -Carl Benjamin Boyer (d. 1976), historian of mathematics
*November 5 -Fred Lawrence Whipple (d. 2004), Americanastronomer who coined the term "dirty snowball" to explain the nature ofcomet s.
*December 25 -Ernst Ruska (d. 1988), Nobel Prize PhysicistDeaths
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February 27 -Samuel Pierpont Langley (b. 1834),astronomer .
*March 8 -Henry Baker Tristram (b. 1822), Englishornithologist .
*July 5 -Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (b. 1863),physicist .
*September 5 -Ludwig Boltzmann (b. 1844),Austria nphysicist .
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