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1900 in science

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The year 1900 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Aeronautics

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Chemistry

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Earth sciences

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Exploration

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Genetics

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Mathematics

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Medicine

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Paleontology

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Photography

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Physics

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Physiology

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Zoology

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Awards

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Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ "Magnetism of the Earth". The New York Times. January 6, 1900. p. 1.
  2. ^ Grout, Andrew (2004). "Oldham, Richard Dixon (1858–1936)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37820. Retrieved 2011-10-20. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  3. ^ De Vries, H. (1900). "Sur la loi de disjonction des hybrides" [On the law of hybrid disjunction]. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences (in French). 130. Paris: 845–847.
  4. ^ "From Latin Squares to Sudoku:A History of Magic Numbers". Archived from the original on 2008-10-01.
  5. ^ "36 Officer Problem". Archived from the original on 2008-08-28.
  6. ^ Tarry, Gaston (1900). "Le Probléme de 36 Officiers". Compte Rendu de l'Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences. 1. Secrétariat de l'Association: 122–123.
  7. ^ Tarry, Gaston (1901). "Le Probléme de 36 Officiers". Compte Rendu de l'Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences. 2. Secrétariat de l'Association: 170–203.
  8. ^ Treacher Collins, E. (1900). "Cases with symmetrical congenital notches in the outer part of each lid and defective development of the malar bones". Transactions of the Ophthalmological Societies of the United Kingdom. 20: 190–192.
  9. ^ "Edward Treacher Collins". Whonamedit?. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  10. ^ Steward, Edward G. (2008). Quantum Mechanics: Its Early Development and the Road to Entanglement. London: Imperial College Press. pp. 36–42.
  11. ^ Planck, M. (1900). "Über eine Verbesserung der Wien'schen Spectralgleichung". Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft. 2: 202–204. Translated in ter Haar, D. (1967). "On an Improvement of Wien's Equation for the Spectrum". The Old Quantum Theory (PDF). Pergamon Press. pp. 79–81. LCCN 66029628.
  12. ^ Gamow, Max (1985). Thirty Years that Shook Physics. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0486248950.
  13. ^ Planck, M. (1900). "Zur Theorie des Gesetzes der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum". Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft. 2: 237–245. Translated in ter Haar, D. (1967). The Old Quantum Theory (PDF). Pergamon Press. p. 82. LCCN 66029628.
  14. ^ Mehra, Jagdish; Rechenberg, Helmut (2000). The Historical Development of Quantum Theory: The Quantum Theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Sommerfeld: Its Foundation and the Rise of Its Difficulties 1900–1925. Springer. pp. 50–53.
  15. ^ Landsteiner, K. (1900). "Zur Kenntnis der antifermentativen, lytischen und agglutinierenden Wirkungen des Blutserums und der Lymphe". Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie. 27: 357–62.
  16. ^ Yamashima, T. (2003). "Jokichi Takamine (1854–1922), the samurai chemist, and his work on adrenalin". Journal of Medical Biography. 11 (2): 95–102. doi:10.1177/096777200301100211. PMID 12717538.
  17. ^ Bennett, M. (1999). "One hundred years of adrenaline: the discovery of autoreceptors". Clinical Autonomic Research. 9 (3): 145–59. doi:10.1007/BF02281628. PMID 10454061.
  18. ^ Ussher, Richard John; Warren, Robert (1900). The birds of Ireland; an account of the distribution, migrations and habits of birds as observed in Ireland, with all additions to the Irish list. London: Gurney and Jackson (successors to Mr. Van Voorst). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.49473.
  19. ^ "Richard J. Ussher and "The Birds of Ireland"". Ask about Ireland. Retrieved 2012-10-04.
  20. ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  21. ^ a b The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. New York: Routledge. 2000.
  22. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  23. ^ The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. 2007. ISBN 9780387304007.
  24. ^ "Obituary: Ethelwynn Trewavas". The Independent. London. 1993-08-21. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
  25. ^ "Mary Cartwright Times obituary". www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
  26. ^ "Robina Addis". Wellcome Library. Retrieved 2019-03-16.