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The year 1904 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

ASTRONOMY

Edward Walter Maunder plots the first Sunspot "butterfly diagram"

Himalia , a moon of Jupiter , discovered at Lick Observatory

MEDICINE

Epinephrine first artificially synthesized by Friedrich Stolz .

PHYSICS

Vacuum Tube invented by John Ambrose Fleming

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

--- Chemistry - Sir William Ramsay

--- Medicine - Ivan Pavlov

BIRTHS

January 26 - Ancel Keys , Nutritionist .

March 20 - B. F. Skinner (d. 1990 ), behavioral Psychologist .

April 22 - Robert Oppenheimer (d. 1967 ), Physicist .

July 5 - Ernst Mayr (d. 2005 ), Evolutionary Biologist .

August 28 - Secondo Campini (d. 1980 ), Italian Jet pioneer.

November 11 - J. H. C. Whitehead (d. 1960 ), British Mathematician .

DEATHS

January 20 - Dmitri Mendeleev (b. 1834 ), Russia n Chemist and inventor of the Periodic Table .

May 10 - Henry Morton Stanley (b. 1841 ), Explorer , Journalist .