1910 In Science

Astronomy

• The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.

Biology

• Thomas Hunt Morgan discovers that genes are located on chromosomes.

Chemistry

• Albert Einstein and Marian Smoluchowski find the Einstein-Smoluchowski formula for the attenuation coefficient due to density fluctuations in a gas

Physics

• German physicist Theodor Wulf climbs the Eiffel Tower with an electrometer and discovers the first evidence of cosmic rays
• Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordstrm defines Reissner-Nordstrm singularity, Hermann Weyl solves special case for a point-body source

Technology

• The first live musical radio program. Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera
• Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France
• Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
• Physics - Johannes Diderik van der Waals
• Chemistry - Otto Wallach
• Medicine - Albrecht Kossel

Births

• February 9 - Jacques Monod (d. 1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
• February 13 - William Bradford Shockley (d. 1989), physicist.
• March 11 - Robert Havemann (d. 1982), chemist.
• May 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (d. 1994), chemist.
• December 24 - William Hayward Pickering (d. 2004), head of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Deaths

• May 10 - Stanislao Cannizzaro (b. 1826), chemist.
• May 12 - William Huggins (b. 1824), astronomer.
• May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (b. 1843), bacteriologist.
• July 4 - Giovanni Schiaparelli (b. 1835), Italian astronomer.

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