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Overview of the events of 1903 in science
The year 1903 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Aeronautics
December 17 –
Wright brothers ' first flight
Biology
The type specimen of the
vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis ) is described by
Carl Chun .
[2]
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
Mathematics
Physics
Physiology and medicine
Technology
Institutions
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 .
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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 .
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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.
June 14 –
Carl Gegenbaur (born
1826 ), German
anatomist .
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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 .
^ Chun, Karl (1903).
Aus den tiefen des weltmeeres [From the depths of the ocean ] (in German). Jena: G. Fischer. p. 88.
doi :
10.5962/bhl.title.14876 .
^ 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 . [
permanent dead link ]
^ 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 .
S2CID
145403326 .
^ "Stovaïne, anesthésique local". Bull. Sc. pharmacolog. 10 (1904): 141.
^
US patent 746971 , Italo Marchiony, "Mold", issued 1903-12-15
^
"The History of Engines – How Engines Work. Part 2: A Short History and Timeline of Gas Turbine Engines" . About.com.Inventors . Archived from
the original on 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2012-01-31 .
^ Blake, LeRoy W. (May–June 1979).
"Remembering the A.D. Baker Company" . Farm Collector : 4. Archived from
the original on 2012-05-10. 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 .
^
"History of the Museum" . Deutsches Museum. Retrieved 2023-02-16 .
^
"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" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .
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Gegenbaur, Carl (1826-1903) (in French). Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Retrieved 6 February 2021 .