1913 in science
Overview of the events of 1913 in science
The year 1913 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Climatology
Geology
History of science
March – First publication of Isis , the journal of the history of science edited by George Sarton , in Ghent .
Pierre Duhem begins publication of Le Système du Monde: Histoire des Doctrines cosmologiques de Platon à Copernic in Paris.
Mathematics
Physics
Physiology and medicine
Psychology
Technology
Publications
Awards
Births
January 31 – Murray Bowen (died 1990 ), American psychiatrist and pioneer of family therapy .
February 28 – David Hawkins (died 2002 ), American philosopher of science and mathematics and science educator.
March 2 – Georgy Flyorov (died 1990 ), Russian physicist who is known for his discovery of the spontaneous fission.
March 26 – Paul Erdős (died 1996 ), Hungarian mathematician .[ 23]
April 20 – Willi Hennig (died 1976 ), German entomologist and pioneer of cladistics .
April 30 – Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (died 2006 ), American mathematician and cryptanalyst .
May 13 – Erich Lackner (died 1992 ), Austrian-born German civil engineer.
June 10 – Edward Abraham (died 1999 ), English biochemist .
August 20 – Roger Wolcott Sperry (died 1994 ), American neuropsychologist , neurobiologist and Nobel laureate .
August 22 – Bruno Pontecorvo (died 1993 ), Italian-born physicist .
October 10 – Remy Chauvin (died 2009 ), French biologist and entomologist .
November 12 – Joel Elkes (died 2015 ), Königsberg -born pharmacologist .
Deaths
References
^ Chant, C. (1913). "An Extraordinary Meteoric Display". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada . 7 : 145–19. Bibcode :1913JRASC...7..145C .
^ O'Keefe, J. A. (1991). "The Cyrillid Shower: Remnant of a Circumterrestrial Ring?" . Abstracts of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference . 22 : 995. Bibcode :1991LPI....22..995O .
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^ Original papers published in Journal of Biological Chemistry . Rosenfeld, Louis (April 1997). "Vitamine—vitamin: The early years of discovery" . Clinical Chemistry . 43 (4). American Association for Clinical Chemistry: 680–685. doi :10.1093/clinchem/43.4.680 . PMID 9105273 . Archived from the original on 2016-06-04. Retrieved 2016-07-24 .
^ Weisstein, Eric W. (1996). "Moseley, Henry (1887–1915)" . Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography . Wolfram Research Products. Retrieved 2007-03-25 .
^ "Frederick Soddy: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1921" . Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1901–1921 . Elsevier. 1966. Retrieved 2007-03-25 .
^ Fajans, Kasimir (1913). "Über eine Beziehung zwischen der Art einer radioaktiven Umwandlung und dem elektrochemischen Verhalten der betreffenden Radioelemente" [On a relation between the type of radioactive transformation and the electrochemical behavior of the relevant radioactive elements]. Physikalische Zeitschrift . 14 : 131–136.
^ "Early Mass Spectrometry" . A History of Mass Spectrometry . Scripps Center for Mass Spectrometry. 2005. Archived from the original on 2007-03-03. Retrieved 2007-03-26 .
^ "Review" . The Cambridge Review . 34 (853): 351. Archived from the original on 2006-04-30. Retrieved 2016-11-06 .
^ Borel, Émile (1913). "Mécanique statistique et irréversibilité". Journal de Physique . 5e série. 3 : 189–196.
^ Bohr, N. (1913). "On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules" (PDF) . Philosophical Magazine . Series 6. 26 (151). London: 1–25. Bibcode :1913PMag...26....1B . doi :10.1080/14786441308634955 . Retrieved 2012-01-24 .
^ Bohr, N. (1913). "Part II – Systems containing only a Single Nucleus" (PDF) . Philosophical Magazine . 26 : 476–502. Bibcode :1913PMag...26..476B . doi :10.1080/14786441308634993 . Retrieved 2012-01-24 .
^ "Niels Bohr: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922" . Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1922–1941 . Elsevier. 1966. Retrieved 2007-03-25 .
^ Sagnac, Georges (1913). "The demonstration of the luminiferous aether by an interferometer in uniform rotation" . Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences . 157 : 708–710.
^ Sagnac, Georges (1913). "On the proof of the reality of the luminiferous aether by the experiment with a rotating interferometer" . Comptes rendus . 157 : 1410–1413.
^ Quintin, M. (1996). "Qui a découvert la fluorescence X ?" . Journal de Physique IV . 6 (4). Retrieved 2012-06-21 .
^ Anitschkow, N.; Chalatow, S. (1983). "On experimental cholesterin steatosis and its significance in the origin of some pathological processes" . Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology . 3 : 178–182. doi :10.1161/01.ATV.3.2.178 . Originally published 1913 in Centralblatt für allgemeine Pathologie und pathologische Anatomie (in German) XXIV , page 1-9
^ Psychological Review 20 : pp. 158-177.
^ Sikorsky, Sergei I. (2007). The Sikorsky Legacy . Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-7385-4995-8 . Retrieved 2012-05-12 .
^ Oakes, Elizabeth H., ed. (2007). "Sikorsky, Igor". Encyclopedia of World Scientists (Rev. ed.). Infobase Publishing. p. 667.
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. p. 94. ISBN 0-14-102715-0 .
^ Zucker, Robert D.; Biblarz, Oscar (2002). Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics . Wiley. ISBN 0-471-05967-6 .
^ "Paul Erdős – Hungarian mathematician" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .