1911 in science The year 1911 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy June 28 – The Nakhla meteorite lands in the area of Alexandria, Egypt , purportedly killing a dog.Conservation May 19 – Parks Canada , the world's first national park service , is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior . July 7 – The United States , Russia, the United Kingdom and Japan, meeting in Washington, D.C., sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 , prohibiting open-water seal hunting of the endangered fur seal in the North Pacific Ocean , the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation issues. In the next six years, the seal population increases by 30%.Geology January 3 – 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan .Exploration December 14 – Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and a team of four become the first people to reach the South Pole .Mathematics Robert Remak's doctoral dissertation Über die Zerlegung der endlichen Gruppen in indirekte unzerlegbare Faktoren establishes that any two decompositions of a finite group into a direct product are related by a central automorphism. Traian Lalescu publishes Introduction to the Theory of Integral Equations , the first ever monograph on the subject of integral equations. Eugen Bleuler expands on his definition of schizophrenia as a condition distinct from Dementia praecox , in Dementia Praecox oder Gruppe der Schizophrenien . April 8 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers the phenomenon of superconductivity . June 24–30 – Domenico Pacini runs a series of measurements of underwater ionization in the Gulf of Genoa , demonstrating that the radiation later recognised as cosmic rays cannot be originated by the Earth's crust. October – The first Solvay Congress of physicists convenes. Ernest Rutherford explains the Geiger–Marsden experiment and derives the Rutherford cross section by deducing the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from scattering experiments . He proposes the Rutherford model of the atom and demonstrates that J. J. Thomson's plum pudding model is incorrect. Charles Wilson finishes a sophisticated cloud chamber .Psychology The Ponzo illusion , a geometrical-optical illusion , is first demonstrated by Italian psychologist Mario Ponzo .Technology January 18 – Eugene Ely lands on the deck of the anchored in San Francisco Bay , the first aircraft landing on a ship. June 5 – Charles F. Kettering files a United States patent for an electric starter motor. November 4 –, the first large ocean-going diesel ship, is launched in Denmark; Ivar Knudsen is the diesel engineer. The 1909-launched Dutch diesel tanker :ne:Vulcanus |Vulcanus also enters service this year. John Joseph Rawlings files a United Kingdom patent for a wall plug . The Lewis automatic light machine gun is invented by United States Army Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis , based on initial work by Samuel Maclean.Other events March–May – A serialized version of Frederick Winslow Taylor's monograph, appears in The American Magazine , boosting the efficiency movement .Awards Nobel Prizes * Physics – Wilhelm Wien * Chemistry – Marie Curie * Medicine – Allvar Gullstrand Births January 26 – Polykarp Kusch , German-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics . February 14 – Willem Johan Kolff , Dutch inventor of hemodialysis . March 26 – Bernard Katz , German-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine . April 3 – Michael Woodruff , English pioneer of organ transplant surgery . April 6 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen , German winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. April 8 – Melvin Calvin , American winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry . April 16 – William T. Stearn, English botanist . April 18 – Maurice Goldhaber , Austrian-born physicist . May 22 – Anatol Rapoport , Russian-born mathematical psychologist . June 13 – Luis Alvarez , American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. June 25 – William Howard Stein , American winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. July 3 – Herbert E. Grier, American electrical engineer . July 4 – Frederick Seitz , American solid-state physicist . July 5 – Emil L. Smith, American biochemist who studies protein structure and function as well as biochemical evolution . July 9 – John A. Wheeler, American theoretical physicist . August 9 – William A. Fowler, American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. August 29 – John Charnley , English orthopaedic surgeon . September 29 – R. V. Jones, English physicist, expert in electronic military defence. October 5 – Pierre Dansereau , French Canadian ecologist . November 27 – Fe del Mundo , Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist of the Philippines . December 23 – Niels Kaj Jerne , English-born Danish winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .Deaths January 17 – Sir Francis Galton , English explorer and biologist . February 15 – Theodor Escherich , German-born pediatric bacteriologist. March 1 – Jacobus van 't Hoff , Dutch chemist . May 21 – Williamina Fleming , American astronomer . May 24 – Ernst Remak , German neurologist . June 26 - Signe Häggman , Finnish pioneer of physical education of the disabled. December 2 – George Davidson , English-born geodesist , astronomer, geographer , surveyor and engineer in the United States. December 10 – Joseph Dalton Hooker , English botanist. December 13 – Nikolay Beketov , Russian chemist.
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