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The year 1912 in Science and Technology .

BIOLOGY

Horace Donisthorpe first discovers Anergates Atratulus in the New Forest , England on July 23rd .

CHEMISTRY

Peter Debye derives the T-cubed Law for the low Temperature Heat Capacity of a Nonmetallic Solid

EXPLORATION

March 7 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole .

GEOLOGY

Alfred Wegener proposes the Theory of Continental Drift .

MEDICINE

Kazimierz Funk identifies Vitamins .

PHYSICS

Victor Hess discovers that the Ionization of air increases with Altitude , indicating the existence of Cosmic Radiation .

Max Von Laue suggests using Crystal Lattice s to Diffract X-rays

Walter Friedrich and Paul Knipping diffract X-rays in zinc blende

AWARDS

Nobel Prize

--- Physics - Nils Gustaf Dalén

--- Chemistry - not awarded

--- Medicine - Alexis Carrel

BIRTHS

March 23 - Wernher Von Braun (d. 1977 ), physicist and engineer.

April 19 - Glenn T. Seaborg (d. 1999 ), physical Chemist , Nobel laurette in Chemistry

May 30 - Julius Axelrod (d. 2004 ), Biochemist , Nobel Laureate in Physiology.

September 7 - David Packard (d. 1996 ), Engineer .

DEATHS:

February 10 - Joseph Lister (b. 1827 ), British Inventor of Antiseptic .

February 12 - Osborne Reynolds (b. 1842 ), Physicist .

March 29 - Robert Falcon Scott (b. 1868 ), Explorer .

August 7 - François-Alphonse Forel (b. 1841 ), pioneer in the study of Lakes .