Albert Einstein "Annus Mirabilis":

"On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light", ("Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt"

"On the Motion—Required by the Molecular Kinetic Theory of Heat—of Small Particles Suspended in a Stationary Liquid", ("Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen")

"On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" ("Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper"),

"Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", ("Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?")

William Bateson coins the term "genetics" in a letter to Adam Sedgwick and at a meeting in 1906

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8 January 1905 discovery of 554 Peraga and 556 Phyllis

14 January 1905 discovery of 555 Norma

26 January 1905 discovery of 557 Violetta

9 February 1905 discovery of 558 Carmen

8 March 1905 discovery of 559 Nanon

13 March 1905 discovery of 560 Delila

26 March 1905 discovery of 561 Ingwelde

3 April 1905 discovery of 562 Salome

6 April 1905 discovery of 563 Suleika

9 May 1905 discovery of 564 Dudu and 565 Marbachia

28 May 1905 discovery of 566 Stereoskopia and 567 Eleutheria

26 July 1905 discovery of 568 Cheruskia

27 July 1905 discovery of 569 Misa

30 July 1905 discovery of 570 Kythera

4 September 1905 discovery of 571 Dulcinea

19 September 1905 discovery of 572 Rebekka and 573 Recha and 574 Reginhild and 575 Renate

22 September 1905 discovery of 576 Emanuela

20 October 1905 discovery of 577 Rhea

1 November 1905 discovery of 578 Happelia

3 November 1905 discovery of 579 Sidonia

17 December 1905 discovery of 580 Selene

24 December 1905 discovery of 581 Tauntonia

31 December 1905 discovery of 583 Klotilde

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14 January 1905, Death of Ernst Karl Abbe in Jena

28 July 1905 Birth of William Finsen in Johannesburg, South Africa

30 September 1905 Birth of Nevill Francis Mott

23 October 1905 Birth of Felix Bloch

27 October 1905 Death of Ralph Copeland in Edinburgh, Scotland

7 December 1905 Birth of Gerard Peter Kuiper in Harenkarspel, the Netherlands

31 December 1905 Death of Alexander Stepanovich Popov

1905 Birth of Karl Guthe Jansky

1905 Birth of Ulf Svante von Euler

1905 Death of Walther Flemming

1905 Birth of Albrecht Unsöld

1905 Deathof Otto Wilhelm Struve

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Nobel Prize

Physics to PHILIPP EDUARD ANTON LENARD for his work on cathode rays.

Chemistry to Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer "in recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds"

Physiology or Medicine to Robert Koch "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis"

Chronology 1904 - 1905 - 1906