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Peter Debye derives the T-cubed law for the low temperature heat capacity of a nonmetallic solid.; Casimir Funk introduces the concept of vitamins. [2]J. J. Thomson finds the first evidence for multiple isotopes of a stable (non-radioactive) element as part of his exploration into the composition of canal rays (positive ions).
1912 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1912th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 912th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1912, the ...
October 30 – James S. Sherman, 27th vice president of the United States from 1909 to 1912 (born 1855) November 25 – Isidor Rayner, U.S. senator from Maryland from 1905 to 1912 (born 1850) November 28 – Walter Benona Sharp, oil pioneer (born 1870) December 18 – Will Carleton, poet (born 1845) December 29 – Philip H. Cooper, admiral ...
Chorus and soloists sang 1911 out and welcomed 1912. The snow and ice furnished a winter crispness. Headlines in History 1912: New Year's Quietly Celebrated In City
Science Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils . [ 1 ] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks ( ichnites ), burrows , cast-off parts, fossilised feces ( coprolites ), palynomorphs and chemical residues .
A second class passenger, Beesley is one of the survivors of the sinking of Titanic in April 1912, He wrote a successful book about his experience, The Loss of the SS Titanic (June 1912), published just nine weeks after the disaster.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... History of science fiction ... The year 1912 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths
First page of Science and hypothesis (1905) Poincaré had philosophical views opposite to those of Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege, who believed that mathematics was a branch of logic. Poincaré strongly disagreed, claiming that intuition was the life of mathematics. Poincaré gives an interesting point of view in his 1902 book Science and ...