The year 1902 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below. For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ... See also: Innovation By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a level of technological mastery sufficient to leave the surface of the planet for the first time and explore space. ...

Aeronautics

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

Gilmores second, larger plane Drawing of the smaller first plane Gilmore Flying Field One of Gilmores inventions, an 8-cylinder radial engine Lyman Gilmore, (June 11, 1874 – February 18, 1951), was an aviation pioneer. ... Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as aeroplanes in Commonwealth English (excluding Canada) or airplanes in North American English. ... In physical chemistry and in engineering, steam refers to vaporized water. ...

Archaeology

• Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism
• Tyrannosaurus Rex is named by Barnum Brown.

Imagine if you had your penis caught in the gears. ... Binomial name Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905 Tyrannosaurus rex (ty-RAN-o-sawr-us) meaning tyrant lizard because of its size and large teeth and claws (Greek tyrannos = tyrant + sauros = lizard), also known colloquially as T-Rex and The King of the Dinosaurs, was a giant carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the... Barnum Brown was very famous for his fossil discoveries. ...

Chemistry

• August Verneuil develops a process for making synthetic rubies.

Ruby is a red gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide) in which the color is caused mainly by chromium. ...

Photography

• Arthur Korn devises practical phototelegraphy technology (reduction of photographic images to data bits which can transmitted by wire to other locations)

Physics

• 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

Sir James Hopwood Jeans (born Ormskirk, September 11, 1877, died Dorking, September 16, 1946) was a British physicist, astronomer and mathematician who was the first to propose the theory of continuous creation of matter in the universe. ... Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard, in Hungarian Fülöp Lénárd (born in Bratislava on June 7, 1862 – died May 20, 1947 in Messelhausen) was a physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of... The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons from matter upon the absorption of electromagnetic radiation, such as visible light or ultraviolet radiation. ... Theodor (The) Svedberg (August 30, 1884 – February 25, 1971) was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate. ... An example of 1000 simulated steps of Brownian motion in two dimensions. ...

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Hendrik Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
  • Chemistry - Hermann Emil Fischer
  • Medicine - Ronald Ross

This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Hannes Alfvén, 1970 winner for work on astrophysical plasmas List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Painting of Hendrik Lorentz by Arnhemensis Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (July 18, 1853, Arnhem – February 4, 1928, Haarlem) was a Dutch physicist and the winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on electromagnetic radiation. ... Pieter Zeeman (May 25, 1865 – October 9, 1943) (pronounced zāmän) was a physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect. ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. ... Hermann Emil Fischer (October 9, 1852 - July 15, 1919) was a German chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1902. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... Ronald Ross Sir Ronald Ross (May 13, 1857 – September 16, 1932) was an English physician. ...

Births

• February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain (d. 1987), physicist.
• August 8 - Paul Dirac (d. 1984), physicist.
• Zhang Yuzhe (d. 1986), Chinese astronomer.

February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Walter Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was a physicist who, along with John Bardeen, invented the transistor. ... See also: Other events of 1987 List of years in science . ... A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum physics. ... See also: Other events of 1984 List of years in science . ... A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... See also: Other events of 1986 List of years in science . ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ...

Deaths

• April 12 - Alfred Cornu (b. 1841), physicist.
• September 5 - Rudolf Virchow (b. 1821), pathologist and biologist.
• December 22 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing (b. 1840), sexologist.