The year 1903 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Births
- January 22 - Fritz Houtermans (d. 1966), physicist.
- January 27 - John Carew Eccles (d. 1997), psychologist.
- February 2 - Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (d. 1996), mathematician.
- February 22 - Frank P. Ramsey (d. 1930), mathematician.
- April 6 - Doc Edgerton, (d. 1990), professor electrical engineer.
- April 25 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (d. 1987), mathematician.
- May 2 - Benjamin Spock (d. 1998), pediatrician, writer.
- August 7 - Louis Leakey (d. 1972), British archaeologist.
- October 5 - M. King Hubbert (d. 1989), geophysicist.
- November 7 - Konrad Lorenz (d. 1989), zoologist.
- November 27 - Lars Onsager (d. 1976), chemist.
- December 28 - John von Neumann (d. 1957), mathematician.
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