Overview of the events of 1912 in science
The year 1912 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
January 21 – Konrad Emil Bloch (died 2000 ), German-born biochemist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
January 27 – Francis Rogallo (died 2009 ), American aeronautical engineer .
January 30 – Werner Hartmann (died 1988 ), German physicist .
February 13 – Natan Yavlinsky (died 1962 ), Russian nuclear physicist .
February 25 – Preben von Magnus (died 1973 ), Danish virologist .
March 1 – Boris Chertok (died 2011 ), Russian rocket designer.
March 19 – Bill Frankland (died 2020 ), English immunologist .
March 23 – Wernher von Braun (died 1977 ), German-born physicist and engineer.
April 19 – Glenn T. Seaborg (died 1999 ), American physical chemist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
May 22 – Herbert C. Brown (died 2004 ), English-born chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
May 28 – Ruby Payne-Scott (died 1981 ), Australian radioastronomer.
May 30 – Julius Axelrod (died 2004 ), American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
May 31 – Chien-Shiung Wu (died 1997 ), Chinese-American nuclear physicist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Physics .
June 23 – Alan Turing (died 1954 ), English computer scientist .[ 21]
June 30 – Ludwig Bölkow (died 2003 ), German aeronautical engineer.
August 11 – Norman Levinson (died 1975 ), American mathematician .
August 13 – Salvador Luria (died 1991 ), Italian-born biologist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
August 30 – Edward Mills Purcell (died 1997 ), American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics .[ 22]
September 7 – David Packard (died 1996 ), American electronics engineer .[ 23]
September 22 – Herbert Mataré (died 2011 ), German physicist.
October 1 – Kathleen Ollerenshaw (died 2014 ), English mathematician.
November 14 – Tung-Yen Lin (died 2003 ), Chinese-born civil engineer .
November 19 – George Emil Palade (died 2008 ), Romanian -born microbiologist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
November 22 – Paul Zamecnik (died 2009 ), American scientist playing a central role in the early history of molecular biology .
February 10 – Joseph Lister (born 1827), English inventor of antiseptic .
February 12 – Osborne Reynolds (born 1842), British physicist.
March 19 – Thomas Harrison Montgomery Jr. (born 1873), American zoologist and cell biologist.
March 28 – Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (born 1838 ), French chemist.
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April 18 – Martha Ripley (born 1843 ), American physician.[ 24]
May 4 – Nettie Stevens (born 1861), American geneticist .
May 30 – Wilbur Wright (born 1867), American aviation pioneer.
July 17 – Henri Poincaré (born 1854), French mathematician.
August 7 – François-Alphonse Forel (born 1841), Swiss pioneer of limnology .
November 23 – Charles Bourseul (born 1829 ), French telegraph engineer.
December 17 – Spiru Haret (born 1851 ), Romanian mathematician, astronomer and politician.
December 21 – Paul Gordan (born 1837 ), German Jewish mathematician, "the king of invariant theory ".
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^ Just The Facts-Inventions & Discoveries . School Specialty Publishing. 2005.
^ Thomson, J. J. (1912). "XIX. Further experiments on positive rays" . Philosophical Magazine . Series 6. 24 (140). London: 209–253. doi :10.1080/14786440808637325 .
^ Thomson, J. J. (1910). "LXXXIII. Rays of positive electricity" . Philosophical Magazine . Series 6. 20 (118). London: 752–767. doi :10.1080/14786441008636962 .
^ Deutsche Reichs Patent no. 281687 (4 July 1913); abstract in Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry (London) 34 (1915) p. 623.
^ Bernschneider-Reif, S.; Oxler, F.; Freudenmann, R. W. (2006). "The Origin of MDMA ("Ecstasy") – Separating the Facts From the Myths". Die Pharmazie . 61 (11): 966–972. PMID 17152992 .
^ Firma E. Merck in Darmstadt (May 16, 1914). "German Patent 274350: Verfahren zur Darstellung von Alkyloxyaryl-, Dialkyloxyaryl- und Alkylendioxyarylaminopropanen bzw. deren am Stickstoff monoalkylierten Derivaten" . Kaiserliches Patentamt. Retrieved April 12, 2009 .
^ Firma E. Merck in Darmstadt (October 15, 1914). "German Patent 279194: Verfahren zur Darstellung von Hydrastinin Derivaten" . Kaiserliches Patentamt. Retrieved April 12, 2009 .
^ Wegener, Alfred (January 6, 1912). "Die Herausbildung der Grossformen der Erdrinde (Kontinente und Ozeane), auf geophysikalischer Grundlage". Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen . 63 : 185–195, 253–256, 305–309.
^ Demhardt, Imre Josef (2005). "Alfred Wegener's Hypothesis on Continental Drift and Its Discussion in Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen (1912–1942)" (PDF) . Polarforschung . 75 : 29–35. Retrieved April 18, 2011 .
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^ Hashimoto, H. (1912). "Zur Kenntnis der lymphomatösen Veränderung der Schilddrüse (Struma lymphomatosa)". Archiv für Klinische Chirurgie (in German). 97 : 219–248.
^ "ThyssenKrupp Nirosta: History" . Archived from the original on September 2, 2007. Retrieved August 13, 2007 .
^ Carlisle, Rodney P. (2004). Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries . John Wiley and Sons. p. 380 . ISBN 978-0-471-24410-3 . Retrieved September 3, 2011 . Elwood Haynes 1919 patent number.
^ "A non-rusting steel". The New York Times . January 31, 1915.
^ To the Cambridge Philosophical Society . "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915" . Nobel Foundation. Retrieved November 29, 2012 .
^ Lord, Walter (1955). A Night to Remember . New York: Holt.
^ Brooks, John (2003). "The Admiralty Fire Control Tables". Warship : 69–93.
^ Blom, Philipp (2008). The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West, 1900-1914 . Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. p. 334 . ISBN 978-0-7710-1630-1 .
^ "These Nobel Prize Winners Weren't Always Noble" . National Geographic News . October 6, 2015. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020. Retrieved January 19, 2021 .
^ "Alan Turing | Biography, Facts, & Education" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
^ "E.M. Purcell | American physicist" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved May 17, 2021 .
^ "Obituary: David Packard" . The Independent . March 28, 1996. Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey ; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z . Taylor & Francis. p. 1102. ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7 .