- 1912 in science
The year 1912 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Biology
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July 23 -Horace Donisthorpe first discovers Anergates atratulus in theNew Forest ,England .Chemistry
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Peter Debye derives theT-cubed law for the lowtemperature heat capacity of anonmetallic solid .Exploration
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March 7 -Roald Amundsen announces discovery of theSouth Pole .Geology
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Alfred Wegener proposes thetheory ofcontinental drift .Medicine
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Kazimierz Funk identifiesvitamin s.Physics
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Victor Hess discovers that theionization of air increases withaltitude , indicating the existence ofcosmic radiation .
*Max von Laue suggests usingcrystal lattice s to diffractX-rays .
*Walter Friedrich andPaul Knipping diffract X-rays inzinc blende .Awards
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Nobel Prize
** Physics -Nils Gustaf Dalén
** Chemistry - Grignard/Sabatier
** Medicine -Alexis Carrel Births
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March 23 -Wernher von Braun (d. 1977), physicist and engineer.
*April 19 -Glenn T. Seaborg (d. 1999), physicalchemist , Nobel laureate in Chemistry
*May 30 -Julius Axelrod (d. 2004),biochemist , Nobel laureate in Physiology.
*September 7 -David Packard (d. 1996),engineer .Deaths
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February 10 -Joseph Lister (b. 1827), Britishinventor ofantiseptic .
*February 12 -Osborne Reynolds (b. 1842),physicist .
*March 29 -Robert Falcon Scott (b. 1868), explorer.
*July 17 -Henri Poincaré (b. 1854), Frenchmathematician .
*August 7 -François-Alphonse Forel (b. 1841), pioneer in the study oflakes .
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