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Overview of the events of 1903 in science
The year 1903 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Aeronautics [ edit ] December 17 – Wright brothers ' first flight Biology [ edit ] The type specimen of the vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis ) is described by Carl Chun .[2]
Fauna and Flora International is founded as the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire by a group of British naturalists and American statesmen in Africa.Chemistry [ edit ] Mathematics [ edit ] Physics [ edit ] Physiology and medicine [ edit ] Technology [ edit ] Institutions [ edit ] January 22 – Fritz Houtermans (died 1966 ), Danzig-born Dutch physicist .
January 27 – John Eccles (died 1997 ), Australian-born psychologist .
January 28 – Kathleen Lonsdale , née Yardley (died 1971 ), Irish-born crystallographer .
February 2 – Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (died 1996 ), Dutch mathematician .[14]
February 22 – Frank P. Ramsey (died 1930 ), English mathematician.
April 6 – "Doc" Harold Eugene Edgerton ("Papa Flash", died 1990 ), American electrical engineer .
April 9 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus (died 1967 ), American biologist , co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill .
April 25 – Andrey Kolmogorov (died 1987 ), Russian mathematician.
May 2 – Benjamin Spock (died 1998 ), American pediatrician and writer.
June 14 – Alonzo Church (died 1995 ), American mathematician.
July 16 – Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (died 1974 ), German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer
August 7 – Louis Leakey (died 1972 ), British East African paleoanthropologist .
October 4 – Cyril Stanley Smith (died 1992 ), English-born metallurgist.
October 5 – M. King Hubbert (died 1989 ), American geophysicist .
October 10 – Bei Shizhang (died 2009 ), Chinese biologist and founder of the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences .
November 7 – Konrad Lorenz (died 1989), Austrian zoologist .
November 27 – Lars Onsager (died 1976 ), Norwegian-born chemist .
December 19 – George Davis Snell (died 1996), American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist .[15]
December 28 – John von Neumann (died 1957 ), Hungarian-born mathematician. February 1 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (born 1819 ), Anglo-Irish mathematician and physicist.
February 7 – James Glaisher (born 1809 ), English meteorologist and balloonist.
March 28 – Émile Baudot (born 1845 ), French telegraph engineer.
April 28 – J. Willard Gibbs (born 1839 ), American physical chemist.
June 14 – Carl Gegenbaur (born 1826 ), German anatomist .[16]
July 21 – Henri Alexis Brialmont (born 1821 ), Belgian military engineer.
August 2 – Edmond Nocard (born 1850 ), French veterinarian and microbiologist .
August 27 – Kusumoto Ine (born 1827 ), pioneering Japanese woman physician.
November 8 – Vasily Dokuchaev (born 1846 ), Russian geologist . References [ edit ]
^ "Women in Transportation – Changing America's History: Reference Materials" (PDF) . United States Department of Transportation . March 1998. p. 10. Retrieved 2012-08-21 .^ Chun, Karl (1903). Aus den tiefen des weltmeeres From the depths of the ocean ] (in German). Jena: G. Fischer. p. 88. doi :10.5962/bhl.title.14876 . ^ At a meeting of the American Mathematical Society in New York City.
^ Duggan, A. J. (1977). "Bruce and the African Trypanosomes" . The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene . 26 (5 Pt 2 Suppl): 1080–3. doi :10.4269/ajtmh.1977.26.1080 . PMID 20787 . [permanent dead link ^ Lichtarowicz, A. M.; Mayberry, J. F. (August 1988). "Antoni Lésniowski and his contribution to regional enteritis (Crohn's disease)" . Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 81 (8): 468–470. doi :10.1177/014107688808100817 . PMC 1291720 PMID 3047387 . ^ Campbell, A. W. (1903). "Histological studies on cerebral localisation" . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London . 72 (477–486): 488–492. doi :10.1098/rspl.1903.0077 . S2CID 145403326 . ^ "Stovaïne, anesthésique local". Bull. Sc. pharmacolog. 10 (1904): 141.
^ US patent 746971 , Italo Marchiony, "Mold", issued 1903-12-15 ^ "The History of Engines – How Engines Work. Part 2: A Short History and Timeline of Gas Turbine Engines" . About.com.Inventors . Archived from the original on 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2012-01-31 .^ Blake, LeRoy W. (May–June 1979). "Remembering the A.D. Baker Company" . Farm Collector : 4. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-07-09 . ^ Wilson, Paul N. (1972). "J. G. A. Kitchen, 1869-1940, and his inventions". Transactions of the Newcomen Society . 45 : 15–43. doi :10.1179/tns.1972.002 . ^ "History of the Museum" . Deutsches Museum. Retrieved 2023-02-16 .^ "BBC – History – Marie Curie" . www.bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 20 January 2020 .^ Sets and Extensions in the Twentieth Century ISBN 9780080930664 ^ "George Davis Snell – American geneticist" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .^ Gegenbaur, Carl (1826-1903) . Retrieved 6 February 2021 .
