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The year 1910 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
[edit] Chemistry
- Albert Einstein and Marian Smoluchowski find the Einstein-Smoluchowski formula for the attenuation coefficient due to density fluctuations in a gas.
- Umetaro Suzuki isolates the first vitamin complex, aberic acid.[1]
- Hoechst AG market Arsphenamine under the trade name Salvarsan, the first organic antisyphilitic, its properties having been discovered the previous fall by bacteriologist Sahachiro Hata during systematic testing in the laboratory of Paul Ehrlich; it rapidly becomes the world's most widely prescribed drug.[2]
[edit] Mathematics
- Publication of the 1st volume of Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, one of the most important and seminal works in mathematical logic and philosophy.
- First known use of the term "Econometrics" (in cognate form), by Paweł Ciompa.[3]
[edit] Physics
- German physicist Theodor Wulf climbs the Eiffel Tower with an electrometer and discovers the first evidence of cosmic rays.
- Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordström define the Reissner-Nordström singularity; Hermann Weyl solves the special case for a point-body source.
[edit] Physiology and medicine
- July 15 - Publication of the eighth edition of Emil Kraepelin's Psychiatrie: Ein Lehrbuch für Studierende und Arzte, naming Alzheimer's disease as a variety of dementia.[4]
- Thomas Hunt Morgan discovers that genes are located on chromosomes.
- Chicago cardiologist James B. Herrick makes the first published identification of sickle cells in the blood of a patient suffering from anemia.[5]
- Peyton Rous demonstrates that a malignant tumor can be transmitted by a virus (now known as the Rous sarcoma virus, a retrovirus).[6][7]
- Hans Christian Jacobaeus of Sweden performs the first thoracoscopic diagnosis with a cystoscope.[8][9]
[edit] Technology
- The first live musical radio program: Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera.
- Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
- December 3–18 - Georges Claude demonstrates the first modern neon light at the Paris Motor Show.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 20 - Friederike Victoria Gessner, later Joy Adamson (died 1980), wildlife conservationist.
- February 9 - Jacques Monod (died 1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
- February 13 - William Bradford Shockley (died 1989), physicist.
- March 11 - Robert Havemann (died 1982), chemist.
- May 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (died 1994), chemist.
- July 16 - David Lack (died 1973), ornithologist.
- October 11 - Cahit Arf (died 1997), mathematician
- December 24 - William Hayward Pickering (died 2004), head of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
[edit] Deaths
- May 10 - Stanislao Cannizzaro (born 1826), Italian chemist.
- May 12 - William Huggins (born 1824), English astronomer.
- May 27 - Robert Koch (born 1843), German bacteriologist.
- July 4 - Giovanni Schiaparelli (born 1835), Italian astronomer.
- August 12 - Florence Nightingale (born 1820), English nurse.
[edit] References
- ^ Tokyo Kagaku Kaishi (1911)
- ^ "Salvarsan". Chemical & Engineering News. American Chemical Society. 2005. http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/83/8325/8325salvarsan.html. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
- ^ Pesaran, M. Hashem (1987). "Econometrics". The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. 2. pp. 8–22.
- ^ Berchtold, N. C.; Cotman, C. W. (1998). "Evolution in the conceptualization of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: Greco-Roman period to the 1960s". Neurobiology of Aging 19 (3): 173–89. doi:10.1016/S0197-4580(98)00052-9. PMID 9661992. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458098000529. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
- ^ Herrick, James B. (November 1910). "Peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped red blood corpuscles in a case of severe anemia". Archives of Internal Medicine 6 (5): 517–521. http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/VI/5/517. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
- ^ Rous, Peyton (1 September 1910). "A Transmissable Avian Neoplasm (Sarcoma of the Common Fowl)". Journal of Experimental Medicine 12 (5): 696–705. PMC 2124810. PMID 19867354. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2124810. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966 - Peyton Rous - Biography". Nobelprize.org. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1966/rous.html. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
- ^ Jacobaeus, Hans Christian (1911). "The Possibilities for Performing Cystoscopy in Examinations of Serous Cavities". Münchner Medizinischen Wochenschrift.
- ^ Hatzinger, Martin, et al (4 December 2006). "Hans Christian Jacobaeus: Inventor of Human Laparoscopy and Thoracoscopy". Journal of Endourology 20 (11). doi:10.1089/end.2006.20.848. http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/end.2006.20.848. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
