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The year 1903 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

AERONAUTICS

First documented, successful, controlled, powered flight of an Aircraft with a Petrol Engine by Orville Wright

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky begins a series of papers discussing the use of Rocket ry to reach outer space, Space Suit s, and colonization of the Solar System

BIOLOGY

The type specimen of the Vampire Squid (''Vampyroteuthis infernalis'') is described by Carl Chun .

CHEMISTRY

Peter Cooper Hewitt demonstrates the Mercury-vapour Lamp

MATHEMATICS

Fast Fourier Transform algorithm presented by Carle David Tolme Runge

Edmund Georg Hermann Landau gives considerably simpler proof of the prime number theorem

PHYSICS

George Darwin and John Joly claim that radioactivity is partially responsible for the Earth 's heat

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Antoine Henri Becquerel , Pierre Curie , and Marie Curie

--- Chemistry - Svante August Arrhenius

--- Medicine - Niels Ryberg Finsen

BIRTHS

January 22 - Fritz Houtermans (d. 1966 ), Physicist .

January 27 - John Carew Eccles (d. 1997 ), Psychologist .

February 2 - Bartel Leendert Van Der Waerden (d. 1996 ), Mathematician .

February 22 - Frank P. Ramsey (d. 1930 ), Mathematician .

April 6 - Doc Edgerton , (d. 1990 ), Professor Electrical Engineer .

April 25 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (d. 1987 ), Mathematician .

May 2 - Benjamin Spock (d. 1998 ), Pediatrician , writer.

August 7 - Louis Leakey (d. 1972 ), British Archaeologist .

October 5 - M. King Hubbert (d. 1989 ), Geophysicist .

November 7 - Konrad Lorenz (d. 1989 ), Zoologist .

November 27 - Lars Onsager (d. 1976 ), Chemist .

December 28 - John Von Neumann (d. 1957 ), Mathematician .

DEATHS

February 1 - George Gabriel Stokes (b. 1819 ), mathematician and physicist

March 28 - Emile Baudot (b. 1845 ), telegraph engineer

April 28 - Willard Gibbs (b. 1839 ), physical chemist