1912 in science
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The year 1912 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Biology
- July 23 - Horace Donisthorpe first discovers Anergates atratulus in the New Forest, England.
[edit] Chemistry
- Peter Debye derives the T-cubed law for the low temperature heat capacity of a nonmetallic solid.
[edit] Exploration
- March 7 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole.
[edit] Geology
- Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of continental drift.
[edit] Medicine
- Kazimierz Funk identifies vitamins.
[edit] Physics
- Victor Hess discovers that the ionization of air increases with altitude, indicating the existence of cosmic radiation.
- Max von Laue suggests using crystal lattices to diffract X-rays.
- Walter Friedrich and Paul Knipping diffract X-rays in zinc blende.
[edit] Awards
- Nobel Prize
- Physics - Nils Gustaf Dalén
- Chemistry - Grignard/Sabatier
- Medicine - Alexis Carrel
[edit] Births
- March 23 - Wernher von Braun (d. 1977), physicist and engineer.
- April 19 - Glenn T. Seaborg (d. 1999), physical chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- May 30 - Julius Axelrod (d. 2004), biochemist, Nobel laureate in Physiology.
- September 7 - David Packard (d. 1996), engineer.
[edit] Deaths
- February 10 - Joseph Lister (b. 1827), British inventor of antiseptic.
- February 12 - Osborne Reynolds (b. 1842), physicist.
- March 29 - Robert Falcon Scott (b. 1868), explorer.
- July 17 - Henri Poincaré (b. 1854), French mathematician.
- August 7 - François-Alphonse Forel (b. 1841), pioneer in the study of lakes.
