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The year 1919 in Science and Technology .

PHYSICS

Einstein's theory of General Relativity confirmed by Arthur Eddington 's observation of a total eclipse of the Sun

James Jeans discovers that the dynamical constants of motion determine the distribution function for a system of particles

TECHNOLOGY

XWA (now CFCF),in Montreal, Quebec is the first public radio station in North America to go the air.

US Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read departs Trepassey, Newfoundland , for Lisbon via the Azores on the first Transatlantic flight

John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight

The British dirigible R-34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an Airship .

NOBEL PRIZES

Johannes Stark is awarded the Nobel Prize For Physics

Jules Bordet is awarded the Nobel Prize For Medicine

BIRTHS

January 23 - Hans Hass , zoologist and oceanographer

DEATHS

February 19 - Frederick DuCane Godman (b. 1834 ), Lepidopterist , Entomologist and Ornithologist .

April 4 - Sir William Crookes (b. 1832 ), Chemist and Physicist .

June 30 - John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (b. 1842 ), Nobel Prize -winning Physicist .

August 8 - Ernst Haeckel (b. 1834 ), Zoologist .