1903 in science
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The year 1903 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Aeronautics
- December 17 - First documented, successful, controlled, powered flight of an aircraft with a petrol engine by Orville Wright in the Wright Flyer at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky begins a series of papers discussing the use of rocketry to reach outer space, space suits, and colonization of the solar system.
[edit] Biology
- The type specimen of the vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) is described by Carl Chun.
- Formal opening of the Johnston Laboratories at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England.
[edit] Chemistry
- Peter Cooper Hewitt demonstrates the mercury-vapour lamp.
[edit] Mathematics
- Fast Fourier Transform algorithm presented by Carle David Tolme Runge.
- Edmund Georg Hermann Landau gives considerably simpler proof of the prime number theorem.
[edit] Medicine
- March–April - David Bruce identifies the parasitic Trypanosoma protist as the source of African trypanosomiasis ("sleeping sickness").[1]
- May 10 - Antoni Leśniowski publishes the first article implicating what will later be known as Crohn's disease, in the Polish weekly medical newspaper Medycyna.[2]
- Ernest Fourneau synthesizes and patents Amylocaine, the first synthetic local anesthetic, under the name Stovaine at the Pasteur Institute.[3]
[edit] Physics
- George Darwin and John Joly claim that radioactivity is partially responsible for the Earth's heat.
[edit] Technology
- Laminated glass is invented by Edouard Benedictus.
- The Lune Valley boiler is patented by John G. A. Kitchen and Ludlow Perkins.[4]
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 22 - Fritz Houtermans (d. 1966), physicist.
- January 27 - John Carew Eccles (d. 1997), psychologist.
- January 28 - Kathleen Lonsdale, née Yardley (d. 1971), Irish-born crystallographer.
- February 2 - Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (d. 1996), mathematician.
- February 22 - Frank P. Ramsey (d. 1930), mathematician.
- April 6 - Doc Edgerton, (d. 1990), professor electrical engineer.
- April 25 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (d. 1987), mathematician.
- May 2 - Benjamin Spock (d. 1998), pediatrician, writer.
- June 14 - Alonzo Church (d. 1995), American mathematician.
- August 7 - Louis Leakey (d. 1972), British archaeologist.
- October 5 - M. King Hubbert (d. 1989), geophysicist.
- November 7 - Konrad Lorenz (died 1989), zoologist.
- November 27 - Lars Onsager (d. 1976), chemist.
- December 28 - John von Neumann (d. 1957), mathematician.
[edit] Deaths
- February 1 - George Gabriel Stokes (b. 1819), mathematician and physicist.
- March 28 - Emile Baudot (b. 1845), telegraph engineer.
- April 28 - Willard Gibbs (b. 1839), physical chemist.
- July 21 - Henri Alexis Brialmont (b. 1821), military engineer.
[edit] References
- ^ Duggan, A. J. (1977). "Bruce and the African Trypanosomes". The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 26: 1080–3. PMID 20787. http://www.ajtmh.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=20787.
- ^ Lichtarowicz, A. M.; Mayberry, J. F. (August 1988). "Antoni Lésniowski and his contribution to regional enteritis (Crohn's disease)". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 81 (8): 468–470. PMC 1291720. PMID 3047387. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1291720/. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ "Stovaïne, anesthésique local". Bull. Sc. pharmacolog. 10 (1904): 141.
- ^ Wilson, Paul N. (1972). "J. G. A. Kitchen, 1869-1940, and his inventions". Newcomen Society Transactions 45: 15–43.
