1902 in science
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The year 1902 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Aeronautics
May 15 - Lyman Gilmore claims to have flown his steam-powered fixed-wing aircraft, although his proof was supposedly destroyed in a 1935 fire.
[edit] Archaeology
Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism
[edit] Paleontology
Remains of the second Tyrannosaurus rex specimen, first recognized as such, are excavated by Barnum Brown.
[edit] Chemistry
Auguste Verneuil develops the Verneuil process for making synthetic rubies.
[edit] Photography
Arthur Korn devises practical phototelegraphy technology (reduction of photographic images to data bits which can transmitted by wire to other locations)
[edit] 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 Gilbert N. Lewis develops the cubical atom atomic model. Theodor Svedberg suggests that fluctuations in molecular bombardment cause the Brownian motion
[edit] Physiology
William Bayliss and Ernest Starling discover the first hormone, secretin.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain (d. 1987), physicist. August 8 - Paul Dirac (d. 1984), physicist. Zhang Yuzhe (d. 1986), Chinese astronomer.
[edit] Deaths
April 12 - Alfred Cornu (b. 1841), physicist. September 5 - Rudolf Virchow (b. 1821), pathologist and biologist. December 22 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing (b. 1840), sexologist.
