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The year
1913 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events, listed below.
Contents
1
Chemistry
2
Geology
3
History of science
4
Mathematics
5
Medicine
6
Physics
7
Psychology
8
Technology
9
Publications
10
Awards
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Births
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Deaths
13
References
Chemistry
Protactinium
is first identified by
Kasimir Fajans
and O. H. Göhring
Henry Moseley
shows that nuclear charge is the real basis for numbering the elements and discovers a systematic relation between
wavelength
and
atomic number
by using
x-ray
spectra
obtained by diffraction in crystals.
Geology
Albert Michelson
measures
tides
in the solid body of the
Earth
.
History of science
Pierre Duhem
begins publication of
Le Système du Monde: Histoire des Doctrines cosmologiques de Platon à Copernic
in
Paris
.
Mathematics
Publication of the 3rd volume of
Principia Mathematica
by
Alfred North Whitehead
and
Bertrand Russell
, one of the most important and seminal works in mathematical logic and philosophy.
Medicine
Nikolay Anichkov
first demonstrates the significance and role of
cholesterol
in
atherosclerosis
pathogenesis.
[
1
]
Albert Schweitzer
sets up the
Albert Schweitzer Hospital
at
Lambaréné
in
French Equatorial Africa
.
Physics
William Henry Bragg
and
William Lawrence Bragg
work out the Bragg condition for strong X-ray reflection.
Niels Bohr
presents his
quantum model of the atom
. See paper
here
.
Robert Millikan
measures the
fundamental unit of electric charge
.
Johannes Stark
demonstrates that strong electric fields will split the Balmer spectral line series of hydrogen.
Psychology
John B. Watson
publishes the article
"Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It"
— sometimes called "The
Behaviorist
Manifesto".
[
2
]
Technology
April 29 -
Swedish American
engineer
Gideon Sundback
of
Hoboken, New Jersey
, patents the all-purpose
zipper
.
Kinemacolor
, the first commercial "natural color" system for
movies
is invented.
Publications
Die
Naturwissenschaften
first published by
Die Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.
Journal of Ecology
first published.
Awards
Nobel Prize
Physics
-
Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes
Chemistry
-
Alfred Werner
Medicine
-
Charles Richet
Births
May 13 -
Erich Lackner
, civil engineer.
March 26 -
Paul Erdős
(d.
1996
), mathematician.
Deaths
January 2 -
Léon Teisserenc de Bort
(b.
1855
), meteorologist.
April 14 -
Carl Hagenbeck
(b.
1844
), zoologist.
May 28 -
John Lubbock
(b.
1834
), naturalist and archaeologist.
September 29 -
Rudolf Diesel
(b.
1858
), mechanical engineer (lost overboard this night).
November 7 -
Alfred Russel Wallace
(b.
1823
), biologist.
References
^
Anitschkow, N.; Chalatow, S. (1913).
"On experimental cholesterol steatosis and its significance in the origin of some pathological processes"
.
Arteriosclerosis
.
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.
^
Psychological Review
20
: pp. 158-177.