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The year 1909 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
- August 20 – Dwarf planet Pluto is photographed for the first time, at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, U.S., 21 years before being identified.[1]
- Comet Halleyfirst becomes visible on a photographic plate.
Biology
- Danish plant physiologist Wilhelm Johannsen introduces the term "Gene".[2]
- Karl Landsteiner, Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper first isolate the poliovirus.[3]
- Thomas Hunt Morgan produces heritable mutant Drosophila melanogaster.
Chemistry
- February 5 –
- Summer –
- The concept of Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen at the Carlsberg Laboratory.[7]
- A team under German chemist Fritz Hofmann first synthesizes synthetic rubber (Methylkautschuk).
Geology
- January 16 – South Magnetic Pole.[8]
- April 6 – Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and four Eskimo explorers come within a few miles of the North Pole.
- October 8 – An earthquake in the Zagreb area leads Andrija Mohorovičić to identify the Mohorovičić discontinuity.
Mathematics
- L. E. J. Brouwer makes a proof of the Brouwer fixed-point theorem.[9]
Paleontology
- August 30 – Discovery of the paleontologist Charles Walcott of the Smithsonian Institution.
- Excavation of the dinosaur bone beds at what will become Dinosaur National Monument in the Uinta Mountains of the United States by paleontologist Earl Douglass working for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.[10]
Physics
- Paul Ehrenfest presents the Ehrenfest paradox.[11]
- Albert Einstein together with Marcel Grossmann starts to develop a theory which would bind metric tensor gik, which defines a space geometry, with a source of gravity, that is with mass.
- Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden discover large angle deflections of alpha particles by thin metal foils.
- alpha particles are doubly ionizedhelium atoms.
Physiology and medicine
- July – Ivy Evelyn Woodward is admitted as the first woman Member of the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom.[12][13]
- September – Sigmund Freud delivers his only lectures in the United States, on psychoanalysis, at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, giving public recognition to the subject in the anglophone world.
- German neurologist Korbinian Brodmann defines the cytoarchitecture of the Brodmann area of the cerebral cortex.[14]
- Brazilian physician and
- French
- In psychology, Edward B. Titchener makes the first published coinage of the term Empathy as a translation of the German Einfühlungsvermögen.[21]
Technology
- March 18 – Einar Dessau uses a shortwave radio transmitter in Denmark.[22]
- July 7 – General Electric applies to patent an electric toaster invented by Frank E. Shailor in the United States[23] and produces the GE model D-12, the first commercially successful model.[24]
- July 23 – White Star Liner RMS Republic (15,400 tons), sinking following a collision off Nantucket, becomes the first ship in history to issue a CQD distress signal, using Marconi wireless telegraphy.[25][26]
- July 25 – Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across the English Channelin a heavier-than-air craft.
- Kinemacolor, the first commercial "natural color" system for movies is invented.
- Johann Stumpf popularises the uniflow steam engine.[27]
Events
- June 26 – The Science Museum, London is established as an institution in its own right.[28]
- Commencement of fieldwork for the multidisciplinary Clare Island Survey (Ireland), under the direction of Robert Lloyd Praeger.
Awards
Births
- January 5 – Stephen Cole Kleene (died 1994), American mathematician.
- February 9 – Giulio Racah (died 1965), Italian–Israeli mathematician and physicist.
- February 18 – Warren Elliot Henry (died 2001), American physicist.
- March 22 – Nathan Rosen (died 1995), Jewish American physicist.
- April 13 – Stanislaw Ulam (died 1984), Polish American mathematician.
- April 22 – neurologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- May 7 – Edwin H. Land (died 1991), American inventor and founder of Polaroid.
- September 14 – Peter Scott (died 1989), English conservationist.
- August 1 – Sibyl M. Rock (died 1981), American mathematician.
- November 24 – Gerhard Gentzen (died 1945), German-born mathematician.
- December 11 – nuclear physicist.
- December 14 – Edward Lawrie Tatum (died 1975), American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Deaths
- January 12 – Hermann Minkowski (born 1864), German mathematician.
- February 26 – Hermann Ebbinghaus (born 1850), German psychologist.
- July 11 – Simon Newcomb (born 1835), Canadian American astronomer.
- August 14 – William Stanley (born 1829), English inventor.
- August 27 – physiologist.
- October 19 – forensic psychiatrist.
References
- ISBN 978-1-58381-052-1.
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- ISBN 978-0-300-01324-5.
- ^ "New Chemical Substance" (PDF). The New York Times. 1909-02-06.
- ^ "Original Patent for Synthesis of Ammonia". European Patent Office. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
- ^ Bowlby, Chris (2011-04-12). "Fritz Haber: Jewish chemist whose work led to Zyklon B". BBC News. Archived from the original on 12 April 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
- ^ Sorensen, S. P. L. (1909). "Enzymstudien. II, Über die Messung und die Bedeutung der Wasserstoffionenkonzentration bei enzymatischen Prozessen". Biochemische Zeitschrift. 21: 131–304.
- ^ "The Magnetic South Pole". Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Magnetics Group, Ocean Bottom Magnetology Laboratory. Archived from the original on 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
- ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Douglass, G. E. (2009). Speak to the Earth and It Will Teach You: The Life and Times of Earl Douglass, 1862–1931. Charleston, South Carolina: BookSurge.
- ^ Ehrenfest, Paul (1909). Uniform Rotation of Rigid Bodies and the Theory of Relativity]. Physikalische Zeitschrift. 10: 918. [
- ^ Cooke, A. M. (1972). A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Vol. 3. Clarendon Press for the Royal College of Physicians. p. 976.
- OCLC 938993033.
- ^ Brodmann, K. (1909), Vergleichende Lokalisationslehre der Großhirnrinde in ihren Prinzipien dargestellt auf Grund des Zellenbaues.
- ^ Chagas, C. (1909). "Neue Trypanosomen". Vorläufige Mitteilung Archiv für Schiffs-und Tropenhygiene. 13: 120–2.
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- ^ Lombard, É. (1911). "Le signe de l'élévation de la voix". Annales des Maladies de l'Oreille et du Larynx. XXXVII (2): 101–9.
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- ^ Lectures on the Experimental Psychology of the Thought-Processes. New York: Macmillan, 1909. "empathy, n". Oxford English Dictionary online version. Oxford University Press. December 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-03-04. Retrieved 2012-02-16. (subscription or participating institution membership required)
- ^ "First Broadcast by Ham Radio Operator". The Story of Information. 2013-03-18. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
- ^ F. E. Shailor (1910-02-22) "Electric heater" U.S. patent 950,058.
- ^ Norcross, Eric (2006). "1900–1920". The Cyber Toaster Museum. The Toaster Museum Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-08-15. Retrieved 2022-11-20 – via Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Rescue at Sea". The American Experience. PBS. Archived from the original on 2012-11-09. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ Flayhart, William H. (2005). Disaster at Sea. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 206–210.
- ^ Dickinson, H. W. (1938). A Short History of the Steam Engine. Cambridge University Press.
- ^ "About us". Science Museum. Retrieved 2020-05-06.