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The year 1906 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

CHEMISTRY

Charles Barkla discovers that each element has a characteristic X-ray and that the degree of penetration of these X-rays is related to the Atomic Weight of the element

Mikhail Tsvet discovers the Chromatography technique for organic compound separation

GEOLOGY

April 18 - The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake , an est. 7.9 on the Richter Scale and centered on the San Andreas Fault , strikes near San Francisco, California . The Earthquake and fire destroy over 80% of the buildings in the city, and kill as many as 6,000 people.

Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior

PHYSICS

Walther Nernst presents a formulation of the Third Law Of Thermodynamics

MEDICINE

BCG (Bacilli-Calmette-Guerin) immunization for Tuberculosis first developed

Frederick Hopkins suggests the existence of Vitamin s and suggests that a lack of vitamins causes Scurvy and Rickets

Clemens Peter Von Pirquet with Béla Schick , coins the term " Allergy " to describe hypersensitive reactions.

TECHNOLOGY

Reginald Fessenden makes the first Radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Sir Joseph John Thomson

--- Chemistry - Henri Moissan

--- Medicine - Camillo Golgi , Santiago Ramón Y Cajal

BIRTHS

January 11 - Albert Hofmann , Chemist

February 4 - Clyde Tombaugh (d. 1997 ), Astronomer

April 28 - Kurt Gödel (d. 1978 ), Mathematician

July 2 - Hans Bethe (d. 2005 ), Nobel Prize Physicist

August 19 - Philo T. Farnsworth (d. 1971 ), Television pioneer.

September 4 - Max Delbrück (d. 1981 ), Biologist .

November 3 - Carl Benjamin Boyer (d. 1976 ), historian of mathematics

November 5 - Fred Lawrence Whipple (d. 2004 ), American Astronomer who coined the term "dirty snowball" to explain the nature of Comet s.

December 25 - Ernst Ruska (d. 1988 ), Nobel Prize Physicist

DEATHS

February 27 - Samuel Pierpont Langley (b. 1834 ), Astronomer .

March 8 - Henry Baker Tristram (b. 1822 ), English Ornithologist .

September 5 - Ludwig Boltzmann (b. 1844 ), Austria n Physicist .