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The year 1910 in
Science
and
Technology
included many events, some of which are listed below.
ASTRONOMY
The
Earth
passes through the tail of
Comet Halley
.
BIOLOGY
Thomas Hunt Morgan
discovers that
Gene
s are located on
Chromosome
s.
CHEMISTRY
Albert Einstein
and
Marian Smoluchowski
find the Einstein-Smoluchowski formula for the attenuation coefficient due to density fluctuations in a gas
PHYSICS
German
Physicist
Theodor Wulf
climbs the
Eiffel Tower
with an
Electrometer
and discovers the first evidence of
Cosmic Rays
Hans Reissner
and
Gunnar Nordström
define the Reissner-Nordström
Singularity
,
Hermann Weyl
solves special case for a point-body source
TECHNOLOGY
The first live musical
Radio
program.
Lee De Forest
broadcasts a live performance of
Enrico Caruso
from the
Metropolitan Opera
Henri Fabre
becomes the first person to fly a
Seaplane
after taking off from a water runway near
Martigues
,
France
Henri Coandă
makes first short flight in a plane with a
Jet Engine
AWARDS
Nobel Prize
s
---
Physics
-
Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals
---
Chemistry
-
Otto Wallach
---
Medicine
-
Albrecht Kossel
BIRTHS
February 9
-
Jacques Monod
(d.
1976
),
Biochemist
, winner of
Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
in
1965
.
February 13
-
William Bradford Shockley
(d.
1989
),
Physicist
.
March 11
-
Robert Havemann
(d.
1982
),
Chemist
.
May 12
-
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
(d.
1994
),
Chemist
.
December 24
-
William Hayward Pickering
(d.
2004
), head of
NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
.
DEATHS
May 10
-
Stanislao Cannizzaro
(b.
1826
),
Chemist
.
May 12
-
William Huggins
(b.
1824
),
Astronomer
.
May 27
-
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch
(b.
1843
),
Bacteriologist
.
July 4
-
Giovanni Schiaparelli
(b.
1835
),
Italian
Astronomer
.
