Overview of the events of 1915 in science
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The year 1915 involved numerous significant events in science and technology, some of which are listed below.
Astronomy
Chemistry
Earth sciences
Paleontology
Life sciences
Mathematics
Physics
Psychology
Technology
Awards
Births
- January 11 – Lucille Farrier Stickel (died 2007), American wildlife toxicologist.
- February 26 – Wang Daheng (died 2011), Chinese optical physicist.
- February 28 – Peter Medawar (died 1987), Brazilian-born British biologist, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1960) for his work in immunology.
- March 15 – Laurent Schwartz (died 2002), French mathematician.
- March 16 – Kunihiko Kodaira (died 1997), Japanese mathematician.
- May 30 – Henry Aaron Hill (died 1979), American fluorocarbon chemist and first African American president of the American Chemical Society.
- June 15
- June 19 – Katherine Sanford (died 2005), American cell biologist.
- June 24 – Fred Hoyle (died 2001), English astronomer and science fiction writer.
- July 28 – Charles Hard Townes (died 2015), American physicist and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1964) for developing the maser.
- October 1 – Jerome Bruner (died 2016), American developmental and educational psychologist.
- October 26 – Lu Jiaxi (died 2001), Chinese physical chemist.
- November 18 – Tang Aoqing (died 2008), Chinese quantum chemist.
- November 30 – Henry Taube (died 2005), Canadian-born recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1983).
- December 5 – Ren Xinmin (died 2017), Chinese rocket scientist.
- December 22 – A. E. Wilder-Smith (died 1995), English-born organic chemist.
Deaths
- February 17 – Stanislaus von Prowazek (born 1875), Bohemian-born parasitologist.
- April 19 – Sir Thomas Clouston (born 1840), Scottish psychiatrist.
- March 21 – Ambrosius Hubrecht (born 1853), Dutch zoologist.
- March 24 – Margaret Lindsay Huggins (born 1848), Irish-born astronomer.
- May 2 – Clara Immerwahr (born 1870), German chemist (suicide).
- May 7 – Marie Depage (born 1872), Belgian nurse (died in sinking of the RMS Lusitania).
- May 13 – Morgan Crofton (born 1826), Irish-born mathematician.
- July 22 – Sir Sandford Fleming (born 1827), Canadian engineer and surveyor known as the "father of time zones".
- August 10 – Henry Moseley (born 1887), English physicist (killed in action on the Gallipoli Campaign).
- September 26 – Tsuruko Haraguchi (born 1886), Japanese psychologist (tuberculosis).
- October 11 – Jean Henri Fabre (born 1823), French entomologist.
- October 15 – Theodor Boveri (born 1862), German geneticist.
- December 19 – Alois Alzheimer (born 1864), German neuroscientist.
References
- ^ Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 75:205–10.
- ^ Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane ("The Origin of Continents and Oceans").
- ^ Stromer, E. (1915). "Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. II. Wirbeltier-Reste der Baharije-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 3. Das Original des Theropoden Spinosaurus aegyptiacus nov. gen., nov. spec". Abhandlungen der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse. 28 (3): 1–32.
- ^ Hoge, Mildred (January 1915). "Another Gene in the Fourth Chromosome of Drosophila". The American Naturalist. 49 (577): 47–49. doi:10.1086/279455. JSTOR 2456099. S2CID 83865793. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
- ^ synd/3356 at Who Named It?
- ^ von Economo, K. (1917-05-10) "Encepahlitis lethargica". Wiener klinische Wochenschrift 30: pp. 581–585; (1918) Die Encephalitis lethargica. Leipzig; Vienna: Franz Deuticke.
- ^ "Encephalitis lethargica" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
- ^ Atenstaedt, R. L. (August 2006). "The medical response to trench nephritis in World War One". Kidney International. 70 (4): 635–640. doi:10.1038/sj.ki.5001618. ISSN 0085-2538. PMID 16820794.
- ^ Cannon, Walter Bradford (1915). Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: an Account of Recent Researches into the Function of Emotional Excitement. Appleton.
- ^ Blom, Philipp (2008). The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West, 1900-1914. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. pp. 336–337. ISBN 978-0-7710-1630-1.
- ^ In Journal of Agricultural Research. Harding, Thomas Swann (1980). Two Blades of Grass: A History of Scientific Development in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Ayer Publishing. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-405-12547-8.
- ^ Noether, E. (1918). "Invariante Variationsprobleme". Nachrichten von der Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. 1918: 235–257. Reprinted in: Noether, Emmy; Tavel (1971). "Invariant Variation Problems". Transport Theory and Statistical Physics. 1 (3): 186–207. arXiv:physics/0503066. Bibcode:1971TTSP....1..186N. doi:10.1080/00411457108231446. S2CID 119019843.
- ^ Soddy, Frederick; Hitchins, A. F. R. (August 1915). "XVII. The relation between uranium and radium. Part VI. The life-period of ionium". Philosophical Magazine. 6. 30 (176): 209–219. doi:10.1080/14786440808635387.
- ^ Einstein, Albert (1915-11-25). "Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation". Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin: 844–847. Archived from the original on 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2006-09-12.
- ^ van Dongen, Jeroen (2010). Einstein's Unification. Cambridge University Press. p. 23. ISBN 9780521883467.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Edwards, Phil (2019-12-03). "The trick that made animation realistic". Vox. Archived from the original on 2021-11-17.
- ^ Gaede, W. (1915). "Die Diffusion der Gase durch Quecksilberdampf bei niederen Drucken und die Diffusionsluftpumpe". Annalen der Physik. 46 (3): 357–392. Bibcode:1915AnP...351..357G. doi:10.1002/andp.19153510304.
- ^ U.S. patent 1,178,092 U.S. copy of the 1915/1916 Mills grenade patent.