- 1913 in science
The year 1913 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Chemistry
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Protactinium was first identified byKasimir Fajans andO. H. Göhring
*Henry Moseley shows that nuclear charge is the real basis for numbering the elements and discovers a systematic relation betweenwavelength andatomic number by usingx-ray spectra obtained by diffraction in crystals.Physics
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William Henry Bragg andWilliam Lawrence Bragg work out the Bragg condition for strong X-ray reflection
*Niels Bohr presents his quantum model of the atom
*Robert Millikan measures the fundamental unit of electric charge
*Johannes Stark demonstrates that strong electric fields will split the Balmer spectral line series of hydrogenGeology
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Albert Michelson measurestides in the solid body of theEarth Technology
* Kinemacolor, the first commercial "natural color" system for movies is invented
Awards
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Nobel Prize
** Physics -Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes
** Chemistry -Alfred Werner
** Medicine -Charles Robert Richet Births
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March 26 -Paul Erdős (d. 1996),mathematician .Deaths
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January 2 -Léon Teisserenc de Bort (b. 1855),meteorologist .
*May 28 -John Lubbock (b. 1834), naturalist andarchaeologist .
*November 7 -Alfred Russel Wallace (b. 1823),biologist .
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