1903 in science
The year 1903 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Aeronautics
December 17 – Wright brothers' first flight
- June 27 – 19-year-old American socialite Aida de Acosta becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots Santos-Dumont's motorized dirigible, "No. 9", from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France.[1]
- December 17 – First documented, successful, controlled, powered flight of a heavier-than-air 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 liquid fuel rockets to reach outer space, space suits, and colonization of the solar system.
Biology
- The type specimen of the vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) is described by Carl Chun.
- Fauna and Flora International is founded as the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire by a group of British naturalists and American statesmen in Africa.
Chemistry
- Peter Cooper Hewitt demonstrates the mercury-vapour lamp.
- Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet invents chromatography, an important analytic technique.
- The International Committee of Atomic Weights publishes the inaugural atomic weights report.
Mathematics
- October – Frank Nelson Cole demonstrates that the Mersenne number 267-1, or M67, is composite by factoring it as 193,707,721 * 761,838,257,287.[2]
- Fast Fourier Transform algorithm presented by Carle David Tolmé Runge.
- Edmund Georg Hermann Landau gives considerably simpler proof of the prime number theorem.
Physics
- George Darwin and John Joly claim that radioactivity is partially responsible for the Earth's heat.
- Prosper-René Blondlot claims to have detected N rays.
Physiology and medicine
- March–April – David Bruce identifies the parasitic Trypanosoma protist as the source of African trypanosomiasis ("sleeping sickness").[3]
- 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.[4]
- Alfred Walter Campbell divides the cytoarchitecture of the human brain into 14 areas.[5]
- Ernest Fourneau synthesizes and patents Amylocaine, the first synthetic local anesthetic, under the name Stovaine at the Pasteur Institute.[6]
- Willem Einthoven discovers electrocardiography (ECG/EKG)
- Percy Furnivall carries out the first known case of cardiac surgery in Britain.
- The 12th and final edition of Dr Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie ("Sexual Psychopathy: a Clinical-Forensic Study") published during the author's lifetime introduces the term paedophilia erotica.
- Formal opening of the Johnston Laboratories at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England.
Technology
- November – Windscreen wiper for automobiles is first patented by Mary Anderson in the United States.
- The first diesel-powered ships are launched, both for inland waters: Petite-Pierre in France, powered by Dyckhoff-built diesels, and the tanker Vandal in Russia, powered by Swedish-built diesels with an electrical transmission.
- Norwegian engineer Ægidius Elling builds the first gas turbine to generate power, using a centrifugal compressor.[7]
- Laminated glass is invented by Edouard Benedictus.
- Baker valve gear for steam locomotives is first patented in the United States.[8]
- The Lune Valley boiler is patented by John G. A. Kitchen and Ludlow Perkins.[9]
Awards
Births
- January 22 – Fritz Houtermans (died 1966), Danzig-born Dutch physicist.
- January 27 – John Eccles (died 1997), Australian-born psychologist.
- January 28 – Kathleen Lonsdale, née Yardley (died 1971), Irish-born crystallographer.
- February 2 – Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (died 1996), Dutch mathematician.[11]
- February 22 – Frank P. Ramsey (died 1930), English mathematician.
- April 6 – "Doc" Harold Eugene Edgerton ("Papa Flash", died 1990), American electrical engineer.
- April 9 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus (died 1967), American biologist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill.
- April 25 – Andrey Kolmogorov (died 1987), Russian mathematician.
- May 2 – Benjamin Spock (died 1998), American pediatrician and writer.
- June 14 – Alonzo Church (died 1995), American mathematician.
- July 16 – Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (died 1974), German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer
- August 7 – Louis Leakey (died 1972), British East African paleoanthropologist.
- October 4 – Cyril Stanley Smith (died 1992), English-born metallurgist.
- October 5 – M. King Hubbert (died 1989), American geophysicist.
- October 10 – Bei Shizhang (died 2009), Chinese biologist and founder of the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- November 7 – Konrad Lorenz (died 1989), Austrian zoologist.
- November 27 – Lars Onsager (died 1976), Norwegian-born chemist.
- December 19 – George Davis Snell (died 1996), American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist.[12]
- December 28 – John von Neumann (died 1957), Hungarian-born mathematician.
Deaths
- February 1 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (born 1819), Anglo-Irish mathematician and physicist.
- February 7 – James Glaisher (born 1809), English meteorologist and balloonist.
- March 28 – Émile Baudot (born 1845), French telegraph engineer.
- April 28 – J. Willard Gibbs (born 1839), American physical chemist.
- July 21 – Henri Alexis Brialmont (born 1821), Belgian military engineer.
- August 2 – Edmond Nocard (born 1850), French veterinarian and microbiologist.
- August 27 – Kusumoto Ine (born 1827), pioneering Japanese woman physician.
- November 8 – Vasily Dokuchaev (born 1846), Russian geologist.
References
- "Women in Transportation – Changing America's History: Reference Materials" (PDF). United States Department of Transportation. March 1998. p. 10. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
- At a meeting of the American Mathematical Society in New York City.
- Duggan, A. J. (1977). "Bruce and the African Trypanosomes". The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 26 (5 Pt 2 Suppl): 1080–3. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.1977.26.1080. 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. doi:10.1177/014107688808100817. PMC 1291720. PMID 3047387.
- Campbell, A. W. (1903). "Histological studies on cerebral localisation". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 72 (477–486): 488–492. doi:10.1098/rspl.1903.0077.
- "Stovaïne, anesthésique local". Bull. Sc. pharmacolog. 10 (1904): 141.
- "The History of Engines – How Engines Work. Part 2: A Short History and Timeline of Gas Turbine Engines". About.com.Inventors. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
- Blake, LeRoy W. (May–June 1979). "Remembering the A.D. Baker Company". Farm Collector: 4. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
- Wilson, Paul N. (1972). "J. G. A. Kitchen, 1869-1940, and his inventions". Transactions of the Newcomen Society. 45: 15–43. doi:10.1179/tns.1972.002.
- "BBC - History - Marie Curie". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- Sets and Extensions in the Twentieth Century. Elsevier. 2012. p. 175. ISBN 9780080930664.
- "George Davis Snell - American geneticist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
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