1903 in science

1903 in science

The year 1903 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Aeronautics

*First documented, successful, controlled, powered flight of an aircraft with a petrol engine by Orville Wright
*Konstantin Tsiolkovsky begins a series of papers discussing the use of rocketry 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.
*Formal opening of the Johnston Laboratories at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England.

Chemistry

*Peter Cooper Hewitt demonstrates the mercury-vapour lamp

Mathematics

*Fast Fourier Transform algorithm presented by Carle David Tolme 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

Awards

* Nobel Prizes
** Physics - Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, and Marie Curie
** Chemistry - Svante August Arrhenius
** Medicine - Niels Ryberg Finsen

Births

* January 22 - Fritz Houtermans (d. 1966), physicist.
* January 27 - John Carew Eccles (d. 1997), psychologist.
* 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.
* August 7 - Louis Leakey (d. 1972), British archaeologist.
* October 5 - M. King Hubbert (d. 1989), geophysicist.
* November 7 - Konrad Lorenz (d. 1989), zoologist.
* November 27 - Lars Onsager (d. 1976), chemist.
* December 28 - John von Neumann (d. 1957), mathematician.

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


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