1902 in science

See also: 1901 in science, other events of 1902, 1903 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Aeronautics 2 Archaeology 3 Chemistry 4 Photography 5 Physics 6 Nobel Prize 7 Births 8 Deaths

Aeronautics

• Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider).

• Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism

• August Verneuil develops a process for making synthetic rubies.

• James Jeans finds the length scale required for gravitational perturbations to grow in a static nearly homogeneous medium
• Philipp Lenard observes that maximum photoelectron energies are independent of illuminating intensity but depend on frequency
• Theodor Svedberg suggests that fluctuations in molecular bombardment cause the Brownian motion

• Nobel Prize for Physics: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman
• Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Hermann Emil Fischer
• Nobel Prize for Medicine: Ronald Ross

• February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain, physicist
• August 8 - Paul Dirac, physicist

• September 5 - Rudolf Virchow, pathologist and biologist
• December 22 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, sexologist