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MATHEMATICS

Paul Ehrenfest gives a conditional principle for a three dimensional space,

PHYSICS

Albert Einstein introduces the idea of Stimulated Radiation Emission

NOBEL PRIZES

Charles Glover Barkla is awarded the Nobel Prize For Physics

BIRTHS

January 25 - Ilya Prigogine (d. 2003 ), chemist, Nobellaurette In Chemistry .

February 14 - Herbert A. Hauptman , future biophysicist

DEATHS

March 8 - Ferdinand Von Zeppelin (b. 1838 ), founder of the Zeppelin Airship company.

March 31 - Emil Adolf Von Behring (b. 1854 ), winner of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine in 1901 .

July 27 - Emil Theodor Kocher (b. 1841 ), 1909 winner of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine .

August 3 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (b. 1849 ), German Mathematician .