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1910 in science

The year 1910 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

See also: 1909 in science, other events of 1910, 1911 in science, and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Astronomy 2 Chemistry 3 Physics 4 Technology 5 Awards 6 Births 7 Deaths

Astronomy

• The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.

Chemistry

• Albert Einstein and Marian Smoluchowski find the Einstein-Smoluchowski formula for the attenuation coefficient due to density fluctuations in a gas

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 defines Reissner-Nordström singularity, Hermann Weyl solves special case for a point-body source

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
• Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Johannes Diderik van der Waals
  • Chemistry - Otto Wallach
  • Medicine - Albrecht Kossel

Births

• February 9 - Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965
• February 13 - William Bradford Shockley, physicist
• March 11 - Robert Havemann, chemist
• May 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist

Deaths

• May 12 - William Huggins, astronomer (* 1824)
• May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, bacteriologist

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