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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
.