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The year 1910 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Biology 3 Chemistry 4 Mathematics 5 Physics 6 Technology 7 Awards 8 Births 9 Deaths

[edit] Astronomy

• The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.

[edit] Biology

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

[edit] Chemistry

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

[edit] Mathematics

• Publication of the 1st volume of Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, one of the most important and seminal works in mathematical logic and philosophy.

[edit] Physics

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

[edit] 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 Coandă makes first short flight in a plane

[edit] Awards

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.