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Overview of the events of 1915 in science
The year 1915 involved numerous significant events in science and technology , some of which are listed below.
Astronomy
Chemistry
Earth sciences
Paleontology
Life sciences
Mathematics
Physics
Psychology
Technology
Awards
Births
January 11 – Lucille Farrier Stickel (died 2007 ), American wildlife toxicologist.
February 26 – Wang Daheng (died 2011 ), Chinese optical physicist.
February 28 – Peter Medawar (died 1987 ), Brazilian-born British biologist, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1960 ) for his work in immunology .
March 15 – Laurent Schwartz (died 2002 ), French mathematician .
March 16 – Kunihiko Kodaira (died 1997 ), Japanese mathematician.
May 30 – .
June 15
virologist and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (
1954 ) for his work on
polio .
Xu Ruiyun (suicide 1969 ), Chinese mathematician.
June 19 – Katherine Sanford (died 2005 ), American cell biologist.
June 24 – Fred Hoyle (died 2001 ), English astronomer and science fiction writer.
July 28 – .
October 1 – Jerome Bruner (died 2016 ), American developmental and educational psychologist .
October 26 – Lu Jiaxi (died 2001 ), Chinese physical chemist.
November 18 – Tang Aoqing (died 2008 ), Chinese quantum chemist.
November 30 – Henry Taube (died 2005), Canadian-born recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1983 ).
December 5 – Ren Xinmin (died 2017 ), Chinese rocket scientist.
December 22 – organic chemist
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Deaths
February 17 – Stanislaus von Prowazek (born 1875 ), Bohemian-born parasitologist.
April 19 – Sir Thomas Clouston (born 1840 ), Scottish psychiatrist .
March 21 – Ambrosius Hubrecht (born 1853 ), Dutch zoologist .
March 24 – Margaret Lindsay Huggins (born 1848 ), Irish -born astronomer .
May 2 – Clara Immerwahr (born 1870 ), German chemist (suicide).
May 7 – Marie Depage (born 1872 ), Belgian nurse (died in sinking of the RMS Lusitania ).
May 13 – Morgan Crofton (born 1826 ), Irish-born mathematician .
July 22 – Sir Sandford Fleming (born 1827 ), Canadian engineer and surveyor known as the "father of time zones ".
August 10 – Gallipoli Campaign
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September 26 – Tsuruko Haraguchi (born 1886 ), Japanese psychologist (tuberculosis ).
October 11 – entomologist
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October 15 – Theodor Boveri (born 1862 ), German geneticist .
December 19 – Alois Alzheimer (born 1864 ), German neuroscientist .
References
^ Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 75 :205–10.
^ Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane ("The Origin of Continents and Oceans").
^ Stromer, E. (1915). "Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. II. Wirbeltier-Reste der Baharije-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 3. Das Original des Theropoden Spinosaurus aegyptiacus nov. gen., nov. spec" . Abhandlungen der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse . 28 (3): 1–32.
. Retrieved 2021-07-23 .
Who Named It?
^ von Economo, K. (1917-05-10) "Encepahlitis lethargica". Wiener klinische Wochenschrift 30 : pp. 581–585; (1918) Die Encephalitis lethargica . Leipzig; Vienna: Franz Deuticke.
^ "Encephalitis lethargica" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
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^ Cannon, Walter Bradford (1915). Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: an Account of Recent Researches into the Function of Emotional Excitement . Appleton.
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^ Einstein, Albert (1915-11-25). "Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation" . Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin : 844–847. Archived from the original on 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2006-09-12 .
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^ Edwards, Phil (2019-12-03). "The trick that made animation realistic" . Vox . Archived from the original on 2021-11-17.
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^ U.S. patent 1,178,092 U.S. copy of the 1915/1916 Mills grenade patent.