1911 in science
Events
- January 23rd: The oceanographical Institute is inaugurated Rue Saint-Jacob in Paris.
- Mars: The British physicist Charles Thomson Rees Wilson carries out the first applications of the wet chamber to condensation to study the process of the radioactivity.
- May 9th: Américan Psychoanalytic Association founded by Ernest Jones.
- August 14th: Creation of the Institute of Radium to London.
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November: Opening to Brussels of the first conference European on the quanta, known as conference of Solvay. Albert Einstein takes part in it.
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the German scientist Hans Geiger imagines the counter radiation which bears its name.
- the scientist New Zealand Sir Ernest Rutherford exposes its theory of the atomic structure.
- the Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers the Supraconductivité.
- the American engineer Willis Haviland Carrier invents the Climatisation.
- Casimir Funk discovers the vitamin able to fight the Béribéri.
- Invention of the Radar (date to be checked).
- Economy: the scientific organization , of Frederick Winslow Taylor.
Exploration
- December 14th: The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reaches the pole Southern 35 days before American Robert Falcon Scott. The British Scott reaches the pole the January 12th 1912. He dies in forwarding.
Price
- Physical Nobel Prize
- : Wilhelm Wien (laws of thermal radiation).
- Chemistry: Marie Sklodowska-Curie (French born in Poland) (Polonium and Radium).
- Physiology or medicine: Allvar Gullstrand (Swedish) (optical physics).
- Medal Wollaston: Waldemar Christopher Brøgger
Death
- January 17th: Sir Francis Galton, Exploring and Biologist (N. 1822).
- October 18th: Alfred Binet, psychological French.
- December 10th: Joseph Dalton Hooker, Botanist (N. 1817).
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