1902 in science
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The year 1902 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Aeronautics
- May 15 - Lyman Gilmore claims to have flown his steam-powered fixed-wing aircraft, although his proof was supposedly destroyed in a 1935 fire.
[edit] Archaeology
- Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism
[edit] Paleontology
- Remains of the second Tyrannosaurus rex specimen, first recognized as such, are excavated by Barnum Brown.
[edit] Chemistry
- Auguste Verneuil develops the Verneuil process for making synthetic rubies.
[edit] Photography
- Arthur Korn devises practical phototelegraphy technology (reduction of photographic images to data bits which can transmitted by wire to other locations)
[edit] Physics
- James Jeans finds the length scale required for gravitational perturbations to grow in a static nearly homogeneous medium
- Philipp Lenard observes that maximum photoelectron energies are independent of illuminating intensity but depend on frequency
- Gilbert N. Lewis develops the cubical atom atomic model.
- Theodor Svedberg suggests that fluctuations in molecular bombardment cause the Brownian motion
[edit] Physiology
- William Bayliss and Ernest Starling discover the first hormone, secretin.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain (d. 1987), physicist.
- August 8 - Paul Dirac (d. 1984), physicist.
- Zhang Yuzhe (d. 1986), Chinese astronomer.
[edit] Deaths
- April 12 - Alfred Cornu (b. 1841), physicist.
- September 5 - Rudolf Virchow (b. 1821), pathologist and biologist.
- December 22 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing (b. 1840), sexologist.
