Overview of the events of 1913 in science
The year 1913 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
March – First publication of Isis , the journal of the history of science edited by George Sarton , in Ghent . Pierre Duhem begins publication of Le Système du Monde: Histoire des Doctrines cosmologiques de Platon à Copernic in Paris. Physiology and medicine [ edit ] January 31 – Murray Bowen (died 1990 ), American psychiatrist and pioneer of family therapy . February 28 – David Hawkins (died 2002 ), American philosopher of science and mathematics and science educator. March 2 – Georgy Flyorov (died 1990 ), Russian physicist who is known for his discovery of the spontaneous fission. March 26 – Paul Erdős (died 1996 ), Hungarian mathematician .[ 23] April 20 – Willi Hennig (died 1976 ), German entomologist and pioneer of cladistics . April 30 – Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (died 2006 ), American mathematician and cryptanalyst . May 13 – Erich Lackner (died 1992 ), Austrian-born German civil engineer. June 10 – Edward Abraham (died 1999 ), English biochemist . August 20 – Roger Wolcott Sperry (died 1994 ), American neuropsychologist , neurobiologist and Nobel laureate . August 22 – Bruno Pontecorvo (died 1993 ), Italian-born physicist . October 10 – Remy Chauvin (died 2009 ), French biologist and entomologist . November 12 – Joel Elkes (died 2015 ), Königsberg -born pharmacologist . ^ Chant, C. (1913). "An Extraordinary Meteoric Display". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada . 7 : 145–19. Bibcode :1913JRASC...7..145C . ^ O'Keefe, J. A. (1991). "The Cyrillid Shower: Remnant of a Circumterrestrial Ring?" . Abstracts of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference . 22 : 995. Bibcode :1991LPI....22..995O . ^ "Our Legacy – Early Years" . Formica Corporation. Archived from the original on 2011-03-24. Retrieved 2012-06-08 . ^ Original papers published in Journal of Biological Chemistry . Rosenfeld, Louis (April 1997). "Vitamine—vitamin: The early years of discovery" . Clinical Chemistry . 43 (4). American Association for Clinical Chemistry: 680–685. doi :10.1093/clinchem/43.4.680 . PMID 9105273 . Archived from the original on 2016-06-04. Retrieved 2016-07-24 . ^ Weisstein, Eric W. (1996). "Moseley, Henry (1887–1915)" . Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography . Wolfram Research Products. Retrieved 2007-03-25 . ^ "Frederick Soddy: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1921" . Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1901–1921 . Elsevier. 1966. Retrieved 2007-03-25 . ^ Fajans, Kasimir (1913). "Über eine Beziehung zwischen der Art einer radioaktiven Umwandlung und dem elektrochemischen Verhalten der betreffenden Radioelemente" [On a relation between the type of radioactive transformation and the electrochemical behavior of the relevant radioactive elements]. Physikalische Zeitschrift . 14 : 131–136. ^ "Early Mass Spectrometry" . A History of Mass Spectrometry . Scripps Center for Mass Spectrometry. 2005. Archived from the original on 2007-03-03. Retrieved 2007-03-26 . ^ "Review" . The Cambridge Review . 34 (853): 351. Archived from the original on 2006-04-30. Retrieved 2016-11-06 . ^ Borel, Émile (1913). "Mécanique statistique et irréversibilité". Journal de Physique . 5e série. 3 : 189–196. ^ Bohr, N. (1913). "On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules" (PDF) . Philosophical Magazine . Series 6. 26 (151). London: 1–25. Bibcode :1913PMag...26....1B . doi :10.1080/14786441308634955 . Retrieved 2012-01-24 . ^ Bohr, N. (1913). "Part II – Systems containing only a Single Nucleus" (PDF) . Philosophical Magazine . 26 : 476–502. Bibcode :1913PMag...26..476B . doi :10.1080/14786441308634993 . Retrieved 2012-01-24 . ^ "Niels Bohr: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922" . Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1922–1941 . Elsevier. 1966. Retrieved 2007-03-25 . ^ Sagnac, Georges (1913). "The demonstration of the luminiferous aether by an interferometer in uniform rotation" . Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences . 157 : 708–710. ^ Sagnac, Georges (1913). "On the proof of the reality of the luminiferous aether by the experiment with a rotating interferometer" . Comptes rendus . 157 : 1410–1413. ^ Quintin, M. (1996). "Qui a découvert la fluorescence X ?" . Journal de Physique IV . 6 (4). Retrieved 2012-06-21 . ^ Anitschkow, N.; Chalatow, S. (1983). "On experimental cholesterin steatosis and its significance in the origin of some pathological processes" . Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology . 3 : 178–182. doi :10.1161/01.ATV.3.2.178 . Originally published 1913 in Centralblatt für allgemeine Pathologie und pathologische Anatomie (in German) XXIV , page 1-9 ^ Psychological Review 20 : pp. 158-177. ^ Sikorsky, Sergei I. (2007). The Sikorsky Legacy . Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-7385-4995-8 . Retrieved 2012-05-12 . ^ Oakes, Elizabeth H., ed. (2007). "Sikorsky, Igor". Encyclopedia of World Scientists (Rev. ed.). Infobase Publishing. p. 667. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. p. 94. ISBN 0-14-102715-0 . ^ Zucker, Robert D.; Biblarz, Oscar (2002). Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics . Wiley. ISBN 0-471-05967-6 . ^ "Paul Erdős – Hungarian mathematician" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .