1913 in science
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The year 1913 in science and technology.
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Chemistry
- Protactinium was first identified by Kasimir Fajans and O. H. Göhring
- Henry Moseley shows that nuclear charge is the real basis for numbering the elements and discovers a systematic relation between wavelength and atomic number by using x-ray spectra obtained by diffraction in crystals.
Physics
- William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg work out the Bragg condition for strong X-ray reflection
- Niels Bohr presents his quantum model of the atom
- Robert Millikan measures the fundamental unit of electric charge
- Johannes Stark demonstrates that strong electric fields will split the Balmer spectral line series of hydrogen
Geology
- Albert Michelson measures tides in the solid body of the Earth
Technology
- Kinemacolor, the first commercial "natural color" system for movies is invented
Nobel Prizes
- Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
- Alfred Werner is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- Charles Robert Richet is awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine
Births
- March 26 - Paul Erdös (d. 1996), mathematician.
Deaths
- January 2 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort (b. 1855), meteorologist.
- May 28 - John Lubbock (b. 1834), naturalist and archaeologist.
- November 7 - Alfred Russel Wallace (b. 1823), biologist.