ENCYCLOPEDIA 4U .com

Lists of articles by category | List of historical anniversaries | List of glossaries | List of themed timelines | List of Science Articles | Biographies | Countries | The Big List | Contact Us

Encyclopedia Home Page

1902 in science

The year 1902 AD in science and technology

See also: 1901 in science, other events of 1902, 1903 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Aeronautics
2 Archaeology
3 Chemistry
4 Photography
5 Physics
6 Nobel Prize
7 Births
8 Deaths

Aeronautics

Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider).

Archaeology

Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism

Chemistry

August Verneuil develops a process for making synthetic rubies.

Photography

Arthur Korn devises practical phototelegraphy technology (reduction of photographic images to data bits which can transmitted by wire to other locations)

Physics

James Jeans finds the length scale required for gravitational perturbations to grow in a static nearly homogeneous medium

Philipp Lenard observes that maximum photoelectron energies are independent of illuminating intensity but depend on frequency
Theodor Svedberg suggests that fluctuations in molecular bombardment cause the Brownian motion

Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize for Physics: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman
Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Hermann Emil Fischer
Nobel Prize for Medicine: Ronald Ross

Births

February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain, physicist
August 8 - Paul Dirac, physicist

Deaths

September 5 - Rudolf Virchow, pathologist and biologist
December 22 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, sexologist

Content on this web site is provided for informational purposes only. We accept no responsibility for any loss, injury or inconvenience sustained by any person resulting from information published on this site. We encourage you to verify any critical information with the relevant authorities.

Copyright © 2005 Par Web Solutions All Rights reserved.
| Privacy

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "1902 in science".