In 1915 there were various scientific and technological events, some of which are presented below.
| 1915 in science |
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| 1905 • 1906 • 1907 • 1908 • 1909 • 1910 • 1911 |
| 1912 • 1913 • 1914 • 1915 • 1916 • 1917 • 1918 |
| 1919 • 1920 • 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1924 • 1925 |
| Other events in 1915 |
Content
Human Achievements
Discoveries
- Einstein obtained the final form of his equations of the General Theory of Relativity .
Inventions
Rewards
- Nobel Prize
- Physics - William Henry Bragg , William Lawrence Bragg - "For Merits in the Study of X-Ray Crystals ."
- Chemistry - Richard Martin Willstatter - "For the study of coloring matter of the plant world, especially chlorophyll."
- Physiology and medicine - no prize was awarded.
- Lomonosov Prize [1]
- A. V. Mikhailov for the study of ancient Slavic sources [2] .
- Levenguk Medal
- David Bruce (UK)
Born
- February 11 - Richard Wesley Hamming , American mathematician .
- March 5 - Laurent-Moise Schwartz , French mathematician.
- March 6 - Kunihiko Kodaira , Japanese mathematician .
- June 15 - Thomas Hackle Weller , American Virologist.
- June 24 - Fred Hoyle , British astronomer.
- July 28 - Charles Hard Towns , American physicist. Nobel Laureate (1964).
- October 26 - Lu Jiaxi , a Chinese chemist.
- November 30 - Henry Taube , American chemist.
Died
- May 13 - Morgan Crofton , Irish mathematician.
- July 22 - Sandford Fleming is the engineer who created the Canadian rail network.
- August 10 - Henry Moseley , an English physicist.
- October 11 - Jean Henri Fabre , French entomologist and writer.
- October 15 - Theodore Boveri , German biologist.
- December 19 - Alois Alzheimer , German psychiatrist and neurologist.
See also
► 1915 in science
Notes
- ↑ E. Yu. Basargina Lomonosov Prize - the first state award in Russia (1865-1918). (Series “Ad fontes. Materials and research on the history of science.” Issue 2) - St. Petersburg.,: Publishing House of St. Petersburg Institute of RAS “Nestor-Istoriya”, 2012. - 124 p. - 500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-98187-979-1
- ↑ Mikhailov A.V. Experience in studying the text of the book of Genesis of the Prophet Moses in the Old Slavonic translation. Part 1. Parimey text. Warsaw, 1912.22, CCCXLII, 460 pp.