- 1925 in science
The year 1925 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Biology
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July 21 -Scopes Trial : InDayton, Tennessee , high school biology teacherJohn T. Scopes is found guilty of teachingevolution in class and fined $100.Technology
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June 13 -Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute film of a miniature windmill in motion is sent across 5 miles from Anacostia toWashington, DC . The images were viewed by representatives ofthe Bureau of Standards , theU.S. Navy ,the Commerce Department , and others. Jenkins called this "the first public demonstration of radiovision"Awards
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Nobel Prize s
**Physics -James Franck ,Gustav Ludwig Hertz
**Chemistry -Richard Adolf Zsigmondy Births
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October 31 -John Pople (d. 2004), BritishNobel prize winningChemist .Deaths
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February 3 -Oliver Heaviside (b. 1850),physicist .
*June 3 -Camille Flammarion (b. 1842),astronomer .
*June 22 -Felix Klein (b. 1849), Germanmathematician .
*July 26 -Gottlob Frege (b. 1848),mathematician .
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