1910 in science

1910 in science

The year 1910 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy

* The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.

Biology

*Thomas Hunt Morgan discovers that genes are located on chromosomes.

Chemistry

* Albert Einstein and Marian Smoluchowski find the Einstein-Smoluchowski formula for the attenuation coefficient due to density fluctuations in a gas

Physics

* German physicist Theodor Wulf climbs the Eiffel Tower with an electrometer and discovers the first evidence of cosmic rays
* Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordström define the Reissner-Nordström singularity, Hermann Weyl solves special case for a point-body source

Technology

* The first live musical radio program. Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera
* Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France
* Henri Coandă makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine

Awards

* Nobel Prizes
** Physics - Johannes Diderik van der Waals
** Chemistry - Otto Wallach
** Medicine - Albrecht Kossel

Births

* February 9 - Jacques Monod (d. 1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
* February 13 - William Bradford Shockley (d. 1989), physicist.
* March 11 - Robert Havemann (d. 1982), chemist.
* May 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (d. 1994), chemist.
* December 24 - William Hayward Pickering (d. 2004), head of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Deaths

* May 10 - Stanislao Cannizzaro (b. 1826), chemist.
* May 12 - William Huggins (b. 1824), astronomer.
* May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (b. 1843), bacteriologist.
* July 4 - Giovanni Schiaparelli (b. 1835), Italian astronomer.


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