1906 in science
Events
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April 7th: The French physician Marie Curie becomes the first female professor with the Sorbonne with Paris.
- July 30th: Photographic process of reproduction of the colors of Gabriel Lippman.
- October 3rd: First International Conference of wireless telegraphy in Berlin: twenty-seven States adopt the S.O.S like hazard warning signal.
- October 25th: Patent of the first three-electrode lamps, invented by the engineer Lee De Forest, who revolutionizes the radio and marks the beginning of the electronic .
- December 24th: Reginald Fessenden transmits the voice by Hertzian waves.
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First edition of the national atlas of the Canada.
- the German physicist Hermann Walther Nernst presents a formulation of the third law of thermodynamics.
- Creation of the international electrotechnical Commission (CEI), treating organization of standardization of the fields of electricity, electronics and the related techniques.
- the German chemist Fritz Hoffmann finds the means of manufacturing synthetic rubber.
- Correspondence between Freud and Carl Gustav Jung.
Explorations
- Forwarding of the duke of the Abruzzi on the Ruwenzori.
- Arctic Forwarding of the Norwegian Roald Amundsen.
- the explorer L. Mylius makes a success of the crossing of the Greenland. He dies in forwarding in 1907.
Price
- Physical Nobel Prize
- : Sir Joseph John Thomson (conduction of gases).
- Chemistry: Henri Moissan (French) (insulation of the Fluorine and industrial light-arc furnace).
- Physiology or medicine: Camillo Golgi (Italian), Santiago Ramón there Cajal (Spanish) (nervous system)
- Medal Wollaston: Henry Woodward
Births
- January 11th: Albert Hoffmann, Chemist
- February 4th: Clyde William Tombaugh, Astronomer (D. 1997)
- April 28th: Kurt Gödel, Mathematician (D. 1978)
- April 28th: Hans Bethe, Nobel Prize of physics in 1967 (D. 2005)
- August 19th: Philosophy inventive Farnsworth, of the Cathode tube (D. 1971)
- September 4th: max Delbrück, Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine in 1969 (D. 1981)
- November 5th: Fred Lawrence Whipple, Astronomer (D. 2004)
- December 25th: Ernst August Friedrich Ruska, Nobel Prize of physics in 1986 (D. 1988)
Death
- March 8th: Henry Baker Tristram, ornithologist (D. 1822)
- March 19th: Pierre Curie
- September 5th: Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian Physicist (D. 1844), founder of molecular statistical mechanics.
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