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The year 1901 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Chemistry
Computing
- December 13 (20:45:52) – Retrospectively, this becomes the earliest date representable with a signed 32-bit integer on digital computer systems that reference time in seconds since the Unix epoch.
Exploration
History of Science
- September 25 – Establishment of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, the world's first history of science society.[3]
Mathematics
Paleontology
Photography
Physics
Physiology and medicine
Psychology
Technology
Publications
Awards
Births
- January 14 – Alfred Tarski (died 1983), Polish Jewish logician and mathematician.
- January 18 – Frank Zamboni (died 1988), American inventor
- February 28 – Linus Pauling (died 1994), American chemist, Nobel Prize winner for chemistry and peace.
- March 2 – Grete Hermann (died 1984), German mathematician and philosopher
- March 6 – Rex Wailes (died 1986), English engineer and historian of technology.
- April 13 – Jacques Lacan (died 1981), French psychoanalyst.
- April 23 – E. B. Ford (died 1988), English ecological geneticist and lepidopterist.
- April 29 – Hirohito (died 1989), marine biologist and Emperor of Japan.
- July 2 – Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind (died 2002), American neurologist and psychiatrist.
- August 8 – Ernest Lawrence (died 1958), American nuclear scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939.
- August 10 – Franco Rasetti (died 2001), Italian physicist.
- September 15 – Elie Carafoli (died 1983), Aromanian aeronautical engineer.
- September 29 – Enrico Fermi (died 1954), Italian nuclear physicist.
- October 8 – Mark Oliphant (died 2000), Australian nuclear physicist.
- November 6 – Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (died 1957), British phycologist.
- December 5 – Werner Heisenberg (died 1976), German theoretical physicist.
- December 16 – Margaret Mead (died 1978), American cultural anthropologist.
- December 20 – Robert J. Van de Graaff (died 1967), American physicist.
Deaths
References
- ^ "The Okapi". Forest and stream. Vol. v.57 (1901). [Forest and Stream Publishing Co.] 1901. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
- ^ Über die Bindungsstelle der Metalle in ihren Verbindungen und über Dinitritoäthylendiaminkobaltisalze.
- ^ "DGGMNT". Archived from the original on 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
- ^ Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences.
- ^ Griffin, N. (2004). "The Prehistory of Russell's Paradox". In Link, Godehard (ed.). One Hundred Years of Russell's Paradox: mathematics, logic, philosophy. p. 350. ISBN 978-3-11-017438-0.
- ^ Parshall, K. H. (1991). "A study in group theory: Leonard Eugene Dickson's Linear groups". Mathematical Intelligencer. 13: 7–11. doi:10.1007/bf03024065.
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 141. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Stanier, Peter (2010). Cornwall's Industrial Heritage. Chacewater: Twelveheads. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-906294-57-4.
- ^ Bussey, Gordon (2000). Marconi's Atlantic Leap. Coventry: Marconi. ISBN 0-9538967-0-6.
- ^ Einstein, A. (1901). "Folgerungen aus den Capillaritätserscheinungen" (PDF). Annalen der Physik. 309 (3): 513–523. Bibcode:1901AnP...309..513E. doi:10.1002/andp.19013090306.
- ^ Nobel Foundation (1928). "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928: Owen Willans Richardson". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
- ^ Beekman, George. "The nearly forgotten scientist Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 115 (4): 207–212. Bibcode:2005JBAA..115..207B.
- ^ "Alois Alzheimer". Whonamedit?. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
- ^ Takamine, J. (1901). "The isolation of the active principle of the suprarenal gland". The Journal of Physiology. 27. Cambridge University Press: xxix–xxx. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.1902.sp000893. PMC 1403136. See also American Journal of Pharmacy 73 (1901):525.
- ^ Todes, Daniel Philip (2002). Pavlov's Physiology Factory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 232 et seq. ISBN 0-8018-6690-1.
- ^ Schollmeyer, Thoralf; et al. (November 2007). "Georg Kelling (1866-1945): the root of modern day minimal invasive surgery. A forgotten legend?". Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 276 (5): 505–9. doi:10.1007/s00404-007-0372-y. PMID 17458553.
- ^ Porter, Roy (1997). The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: a medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present. London: HarperCollins. p. 474. ISBN 0-00-215173-1.
- ^ Leishman, W. B. (1903). "On the possibility of the occurrence of trypanomiasis in India". The British Medical Journal.
- ^ Dittmann, Frank (1991). "Die gleislose Bielatalbahn". Sächsische Heimatblätter (3): 177–180. ISSN 0486-8234.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ "Hornby's 1901 patent". Retrieved 2010-08-14.
- ^ US 775134 "Razor"
- ^ "Patent number 669348: T. Rall movable bridge". United States Patent and Trademark Office (referenced online by Google Patents). 1901. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
- ^ Clarke, Mike (2009-01-05). "A Brief History of Movable Bridges". Retrieved 2012-02-09.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.