1919 in science
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The year 1919 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Physics
- Einstein's theory of general relativity confirmed by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total eclipse of the Sun
- James Jeans discovers that the dynamical constants of motion determine the distribution function for a system of particles
[edit] Technology
- XWA (now CFCF),in Montreal, Quebec is the first public radio station in North America to go the air.
- US Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read departs Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight
- John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight
- The British dirigible R-34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.
[edit] Awards
- Nobel Prize
- Physics - Johannes Stark
- Chemistry - not awarded
- Medicine - Jules Bordet
[edit] Births
- January 23 - Hans Hass, zoologist and oceanographer
[edit] Deaths
- February 19 - Frederick DuCane Godman (b. 1834), lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist.
- April 4 - Sir William Crookes (b. 1832), chemist and physicist.
- June 30 - John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (b. 1842), Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
- July 21 - Gustaf Retzius (b. 1842), anatomist.
- August 8 - Ernst Haeckel (b. 1834), zoologist.
