1920 in science
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The year 1920 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Biology
- Andrew Douglass proposes dendrochronology dating.
[edit] Meteorology
- Milutin Milankovic proposes that long term climatic cycles may be due to changes in the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit and changes in the Earth's obliquity.
[edit] Physics
- Megh Nad Saha states his ionization equation
- Albert Einstein delivers his Leiden Lecture
- Ernest Rutherford predicts the existence of the neutron.
- Arthur Eddington's observation of a total eclipse of the Sun seems to confirm the "bending of light" in Einstein's theory of Special Relativity.
- James Jeans discovers that the dynamical constants of motion determine the distribution function for a system of particles.
[edit] Technology
- The first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast is made.
- First domestic radio sets come to stores in USA – Westinghouse radio costs $10
[edit] Births
- January 2 - Isaac Asimov (d. 1992), author.
- January 6 - John Maynard Smith (d. 2004), evolutionary biologist and geneticist.
- February 7 - An Wang (d. 1990), computer designer.
[edit] Deaths
- February 20 - Robert Peary (b. 1856), American polar explorer.
- June 14 - Max Weber (b. 1864), sociologist.
- August 31 - Wilhelm Wundt (b. 1832), physiologist and psychologist.
