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1901
Discovery of Europium (Demarçay)
Richardson formula, Electron emission from hot surfaces
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9 January 1901 discovery of 464 Megaira and 467 Laura
13 January 1901 discovery of 465 Alekto
17 January 1901 discovery of 466 Tisiphone
18 January 1901 discovery of 468 Lina
13 February 1901 discovery of 473 Nolli and 474 Prudentia
20 February 1901 discovery of 469 Argentina
21 April 1901 discovery of 470 Kilia
21 May 1901 discovery of 480 Hansa
7 June 1901 discovery of 471 Papagena
11 July 1901 discovery of 472 Roma
14 August 1901 discovery of 475 Ocllo
17 August 1901 discovery of 476 Hedwig
23 August 1901 discovery of 477 Italia
21 September 1901 discovery of 478 Tergeste
11 October 1901 discovery of 808 Merxia
5 November 1901 discovery of 692 Hippodamia
12 November 1901 discovery of 479 Caprera
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22 February 1901 Death of George Francis FitzGerald, in Dublin, Ireland
11 March 1901 Death of Paul-Achille-Arie Baize in Paris, France
18 May 1901 Birth of Vincent du Vigneaud
13 June 1901, Death of Truman Henry Safford in Newark, New Jersey, USA
21 August 1901 Birth of Semyon Emmanuilovich Khaikin in Minsk, Belarus
29 September 1901 Birth of Enrico Fermi
25 October 1901 Birth of Dean Benjamin McLaughlin, in Brooklyn, New York, USA
5 December 1901 Birth of Werner Karl Heisenberg
1901 Birth of Henry Eyring
1901 Birth of Linus Pauling
1901 Death of François Marie Raoult
1901 Birth of Merle Antony Tuve
1901 Birth of Peter [Piet] Van de Kamp
1901 Birth of Otto Hermann Leopold Heckmann
1901 Birth of Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant
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Nobel Prize
Physics to WILHELM CONRAD RÖNTGEN in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him.
Chemistry to Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions"
Physiology or Medicine to Prize Emil Adolf von Behring "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths"
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