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The year 1900 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Aeronautics
- The first successful airship was built by Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
Chemistry
- Johannes Rydberg refines the expression for observed hydrogen line wavelengths.
Mathematics
- David Hilbert states his list of 23 problems which show where some further mathematical work is needed.
- Bertrand Russell shows that the naive set theory of Frege leads to a contradiction.
Photography
Physics
- Gamma rays discovered by Paul Villard while studying uranium decay.
- Max Planck states his quantum hypothesis and blackbody radiation law.
Births
- March 9 - Howard Aiken (d. 1973), computing pioneer.
- March 19 - Frédéric Joliot (d. 1958), physicist.
- April 25 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (d. 1958), physicist.
- April 26 - Charles Richter (d. 1985), geophysicist and inventor.
- August 25 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (d. 1981), medical doctor and biochemist.
- August 26 - Hellmuth Walter (d. 1980), engineer and inventor.
Deaths
- January 13 - Peter Waage (b. 1833), chemist.
- January 22 - David E. Hughes (b. 1831), inventor.
- March 6 - Gottlieb Daimler (b. 1834), engineer, automotive pioneer.
- April 1 - George Jackson Mivart (b. 1827), English biologist.
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