1911 in science

none 1911 science 1911 The year 1911 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy June 28 – The Nakhla meteorite (from Mars) lands in the area of Alexandria, Egypt, purportedly killing a dog.http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/nakhla.html The Nakhla Meteorite Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2011-10-21 It suggests the first signs of water on Mars. Conservation May 19 – Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior. July 7 – The United States, Russia, the United Kingdom and Japan, meeting in Washington, D.C., sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, prohibiting open-water seal hunting of the endangered fur seal in the North Pacific Ocean,Seal Treaty Signed The New York Times 1911-07-08 the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation issues. In the next six years, the seal population increases by 30%.Shigeru Oda International Control of Sea Resources Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1989 76 Geology January 3 – 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan.Thousands Dead Or Hurt In Earthquake Pittsburgh Press 5 January 1911 1 Exploration July 24 – American explorer Hiram Bingham III rediscovers the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, Peru, and introduces it to the world. December 14 – Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and a team of four become the first people to reach the South Pole. Mathematics Robert Remak's doctoral dissertation de Über die Zerlegung der endlichen Gruppen in indirekte unzerlegbare Faktoren establishes that any two decompositions of a finite group into a direct product are related by a central automorphism. Traian Lalescu publishes Introduction to the Theory of Integral Equations, the first ever monograph on the subject of integral equations. Medicine Eugen Bleuler expands on his definition of schizophrenia as a condition distinct from Dementia praecox, in Dementia Praecox oder Gruppe der Schizophrenien.Stotz-Ingenlath Gabriele Epistemological aspects of Eugen Bleuler's conception of schizophrenia in 1911 Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 3 2 153–9 2000 11079343 http://www.kluweronline.com/art.pdf?issn=1386-7423&volume=3&page=153 PDF 10.1023/A:1009919309015 25457004 2011-11-01Eugen Bleuler http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1294.html Whonamedit? 2011-11-01 2019-09-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20190916110554/http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1294.html deadGregory Zilboorg Gregory Zilboorg A History of Medical Psychology https://archive.org/details/historyofmedical00zilb registration New York Norton 1941 Physics April 8 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers the phenomenon of superconductivity.He presents his findings on April 28. van Delft, Dirk Kes, Peter The discovery of superconductivity Physics Today 63 9 38–43 10.1063/1.3490499 September 2010 2010PhT....63i..38V free June 24–30 – Domenico Pacini runs a series of measurements of underwater ionization in the Gulf of Genoa, demonstrating that the radiation later recognised as cosmic rays cannot be originated by the Earth's crust. October – The first Solvay Congress of physicists convenes. Ernest Rutherford explains the Geiger–Marsden experiment and derives the Rutherford cross section by deducing the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from scattering experiments. He proposes the Rutherford model of the atom and demonstrates that J. J. Thomson's plum pudding model is incorrect. Charles Wilson finishes a sophisticated cloud chamber. Psychology The Ponzo illusion, a geometrical-optical illusion, is first demonstrated by Italian psychologist Mario Ponzo.M. Ponzo Intorno ad alcune illusioni nel campo delle sensazioni tattili sull'illusione di Aristotele e fenomeni analoghi Archives Italiennes de Biologie 1911 Technology January 18 – Eugene Ely lands on the deck of the Pennsylvania ACR-4 6 anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first aircraft landing on a ship. June 5 – Charles F. Kettering files a United States patent for an electric starter motor.No. 1,150,523. November 4 – Selandia, the first large ocean-going diesel ship, is launched in Denmark; Ivar Knudsen is the diesel engineer. The 1909-launched Dutch diesel tanker Vulcanus also enters service this year. John Joseph Rawlings files a United Kingdom patent for a wall plug.Rawlplug History http://www.rawlplug.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=3 Rawlplug 2007 2011-11-28 https://archive.today/20120529131746/http://www.rawlplug.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=3 2012-05-29 dead The Lewis automatic light machine gun is invented by United States Army Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, based on initial work by Samuel Maclean.Skennerton Ian 2001 Small Arms Identification Series No. 14: .303 Lewis Machine Gun Arms & Militaria Press Gold Coast, QLD (Australia) 0-949749-42-7 5 Other events March–May – A serialized version of Frederick Winslow Taylor's monograph The Principles of Scientific Managementhttp://eldritchpress.org/fwt/taylor.html Archived copy 2021-07-24 2009-02-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20090225074655/http://eldritchpress.org/fwt/taylor.html bot: unknown . appears in The American Magazine, boosting the efficiency movement. Awards Nobel Prizes Physics – Wilhelm Wien Chemistry – Marie CurieBBC – History – Marie Curie https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/curie_marie.shtml www.bbc.co.uk 20 January 2020 Medicine – Allvar Gullstrand Births January 26 – Polykarp Kusch (died 1993), German-born molecular physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. February 14 – Willem Johan Kolff (died 2009), Dutch inventor of hemodialysis. March 26 – Bernard Katz (died 2003), German-born biophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. April 3 – Michael Woodruff (died 2001), English pioneer of organ transplant surgery. April 6 – Feodor Lynen (died 1979), German biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. April 8 – Melvin Calvin (died 1997), American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. April 16 – William T. Stearn (died 2001), English botanist. April 18 – Maurice Goldhaber (died 2011), Austrian-born American physicist. May 22 – Anatol Rapoport (died 2007), Russian-born mathematical psychologist. June 13 – Luis Alvarez (died 1988), American experimental physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. June 25 – William Howard Stein (died 1980), American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. July 3 – Herbert E. Grier (died 1999), American electrical engineer. July 4 – Frederick Seitz (died 2008), American solid-state physicist. July 5 – Emil L. Smith (died 2009), American biochemist studying protein structure and function and biochemical evolution. July 9 – John A. Wheeler (died 2008), American theoretical physicist. August 9 – William A. Fowler (died 1995), American nuclear and astrophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. August 29 – John Charnley (died 1982), English orthopaedic surgeon. September 29 – R. V. Jones (died 1997), English physicist, expert in electronic military defence. October 5 – Pierre Dansereau (died 2011), French Canadian ecologist. November 27 – Fe del Mundo (died 2011), Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist of the Philippines. December 14 – Hans von Ohain (died 1998), German aeronautical engineer. December 23 – Niels Kaj Jerne (died 1994), English-born Danish immunologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Deaths January 17 – Sir Francis Galton (born 1822), English explorer and biologist. February 15 – Theodor Escherich (born 1857), German-born pediatric bacteriologist. March 1 – Jacobus van 't Hoff (born 1852), Dutch chemist. May 21 – Williamina Fleming (born 1857), American astronomer.Deborah Todd Joseph Angelo A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy New York Facts of File 2003 118 978-0-81604-639-3 May 24 – Ernst Remak (born 1849), German neurologist. June 26 – Signe Häggman (born 1863), Finnish pioneer of physical education of disabled people. December 2 – George Davidson (born 1825), English-born geodesist, astronomer, geographer, surveyor and engineer in the United States. December 10 – Joseph Dalton Hooker (born 1817), English botanist. December 13 (O.S. November 30) – Nikolay Beketov (born 1827), Russian chemist. References 2 Category:20th century in science Category:1910s in science