Overview of the events of 1911 in science
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The year 1911 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Conservation
- May 19 – Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
- July 7 – The United States, Russia, the United Kingdom and Japan, meeting in Washington, D.C., sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, prohibiting open-water seal hunting of the endangered fur seal in the North Pacific Ocean,[2] the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation issues. In the next six years, the seal population increases by 30%.[3]
Geology
Exploration
Mathematics
- Robert Remak's doctoral dissertation Über die Zerlegung der endlichen Gruppen in indirekte unzerlegbare Faktoren establishes that any two decompositions of a finite group into a direct product are related by a central automorphism.
- Traian Lalescu publishes Introduction to the Theory of Integral Equations, the first ever monograph on the subject of integral equations.
Medicine
Physics
Psychology
Technology
Other events
Awards
Births
- January 26 – Polykarp Kusch (died 1993), German-born molecular physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- February 14 – Willem Johan Kolff (died 2009), Dutch inventor of hemodialysis.
- March 26 – Bernard Katz (died 2003), German-born biophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- April 3 – Michael Woodruff (died 2001), English pioneer of organ transplant surgery.
- April 6 – Feodor Lynen (died 1979), German biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- April 8 – Melvin Calvin (died 1997), American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- April 16 – William T. Stearn (died 2001), English botanist.
- April 18 – Maurice Goldhaber (died 2011), Austrian-born physicist.
- May 22 – Anatol Rapoport (died 2007), Russian-born mathematical psychologist.
- June 13 – Luis Alvarez (died 1988), American experimental physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- June 25 – William Howard Stein (died 1980), American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- July 3 – Herbert E. Grier (died 1999), American electrical engineer.
- July 4 – Frederick Seitz (died 2008), American solid-state physicist.
- July 5 – Emil L. Smith (died 2009), American biochemist studying protein structure and function and biochemical evolution.
- July 9 – John A. Wheeler (died 2008), American theoretical physicist.
- August 9 – William A. Fowler (died 1995), American nuclear and astrophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- August 29 – John Charnley (died 1982), English orthopaedic surgeon.
- September 29 – R. V. Jones (died 1997), English physicist, expert in electronic military defence.
- October 5 – Pierre Dansereau (died 2011), French Canadian ecologist.
- November 27 – Fe del Mundo (died 2011), Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist of the Philippines.
- December 14 – Hans von Ohain (died 1998), German aeronautical engineer.
- December 23 – Niels Kaj Jerne (died 1994), English-born Danish immunologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Deaths
- January 17 – Sir Francis Galton (born 1822), English explorer and biologist.
- February 15 – Theodor Escherich (born 1857), German-born pediatric bacteriologist.
- March 1 – Jacobus van 't Hoff (born 1852), Dutch chemist.
- May 21 – Williamina Fleming (born 1857), American astronomer.[14]
- May 24 – Ernst Remak (born 1849), German neurologist.
- June 26 – Signe Häggman (born 1863), Finnish pioneer of physical education of disabled people.
- December 2 – George Davidson (born 1825), English-born geodesist, astronomer, geographer, surveyor and engineer in the United States.
- December 10 – Joseph Dalton Hooker (born 1817), English botanist.
- December 13 (O.S. November 30) – Nikolay Beketov (born 1827), Russian chemist.
References
- ^ "The Nakhla Meteorite". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
- ^ "Seal Treaty Signed". The New York Times. 1911-07-08.
- ^ Oda, Shigeru (1989). International Control of Sea Resources. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 76.
- ^ "Thousands Dead Or Hurt In Earthquake". Pittsburgh Press. 5 January 1911. p. 1.
- ^ Stotz-Ingenlath, Gabriele (2000). "Epistemological aspects of Eugen Bleuler's conception of schizophrenia in 1911" (PDF). Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 3 (2): 153–9. doi:10.1023/A:1009919309015. PMID 11079343. S2CID 25457004. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ^ "Eugen Bleuler". Whonamedit?. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ^ Zilboorg, Gregory (1941). A History of Medical Psychology. New York: Norton.
- ^ He presents his findings on April 28. van Delft, Dirk; Kes, Peter (September 2010). "The discovery of superconductivity". Physics Today. 63 (9): 38–43. Bibcode:2010PhT....63i..38V. doi:10.1063/1.3490499.
- ^ Ponzo, M. (1911). "Intorno ad alcune illusioni nel campo delle sensazioni tattili sull'illusione di Aristotele e fenomeni analoghi". Archives Italiennes de Biologie.
- ^ No. 1,150,523.
- ^ "Rawlplug History". Rawlplug. 2007. Archived from the original on 2012-05-29. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
- ^ Skennerton, Ian (2001). Small Arms Identification Series No. 14: .303 Lewis Machine Gun. Gold Coast, QLD (Australia): Arms & Militaria Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-949749-42-7.
- ^ "BBC – History – Marie Curie". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- ^ Todd, Deborah; Angelo, Joseph (2003). A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy. New York: Facts of File. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-81604-639-3.