1902 in science Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

The year 1902 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

Aeronautics

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

• Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism

• August Verneuil develops a process for making synthetic rubies.

• 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 Prizes
  • Physics - Hendrik Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
  • Chemistry - Hermann Emil Fischer
  • Medicine - Ronald Ross

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

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

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