1910 in science
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The year 1910 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.
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Astronomy
- The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
Biology
- Thomas Hunt Morgan discovers that genes are located on chromosomes.
Chemistry
- Albert Einstein and Marian Smoluchowski find the Einstein-Smoluchowski formula for the attenuation coefficient due to density fluctuations in a gas
Physics
- German physicist Theodor Wulf climbs the Eiffel Tower with an electrometer and discovers the first evidence of cosmic rays
- Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordström defines Reissner-Nordström singularity, Hermann Weyl solves special case for a point-body source
Technology
- The first live musical radio program. Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera
- Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France
- Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine
Awards
Births
- February 9 - Jacques Monod (d. 1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
- February 13 - William Bradford Shockley (d. 1989), physicist.
- March 11 - Robert Havemann (d. 1982), chemist.
- May 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (d. 1994), chemist.
- December 24 - William Hayward Pickering (d. 2004), head of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Deaths
- May 10 - Stanislao Cannizzaro (b. 1826), chemist.
- May 12 - William Huggins (b. 1824), astronomer.
- May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (b. 1843), bacteriologist.
- July 4 - Giovanni Schiaparelli (b. 1835), Italian astronomer.