- 1910 in science
The year 1910 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy
* The
earth passes through the tail ofComet Halley .Biology
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Thomas Hunt Morgan discovers thatgene s are located onchromosome s.Chemistry
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Albert Einstein andMarian Smoluchowski find the Einstein-Smoluchowski formula for the attenuation coefficient due to density fluctuations in a gasPhysics
* German
physicist Theodor Wulf climbs theEiffel Tower with anelectrometer and discovers the first evidence ofcosmic rays
*Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordström define the Reissner-Nordström singularity,Hermann Weyl solves special case for a point-body sourceTechnology
* The first live musical
radio program.Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance ofEnrico Caruso from theMetropolitan Opera
*Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly aseaplane after taking off from a water runway nearMartigues ,France
*Henri Coandă makes first short flight in a plane with ajet engine Awards
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Nobel Prize s
** Physics -Johannes Diderik van der Waals
** Chemistry -Otto Wallach
** Medicine -Albrecht Kossel Births
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February 9 -Jacques Monod (d. 1976),biochemist , winner ofNobel 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'sJet Propulsion Laboratory .Deaths
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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), Italianastronomer .
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