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Discovery of Europium (Demarçay) Richardson formula, Electron emission from hot surfaces -- 9 January 1901 discovery of 464 Megaira and 467 Laura 13 January 1901 discovery of 465 Alekto 17 January 1901 discovery of 466 Tisiphone 18 January 1901 discovery of 468 Lina 13 February 1901 discovery of 473 Nolli and 474 Prudentia 20 February 1901 discovery of 469 Argentina 21 April 1901 discovery of 470 Kilia 21 May 1901 discovery of 480 Hansa 7 June 1901 discovery of 471 Papagena 11 July 1901 discovery of 472 Roma 14 August 1901 discovery of 475 Ocllo 17 August 1901 discovery of 476 Hedwig 23 August 1901 discovery of 477 Italia 21 September 1901 discovery of 478 Tergeste 11 October 1901 discovery of 808 Merxia 5 November 1901 discovery of 692 Hippodamia 12 November 1901 discovery of 479 Caprera --- 22 February 1901 Death of George Francis FitzGerald, in Dublin, Ireland 11 March 1901 Death of Paul-Achille-Arie Baize in Paris, France 18 May 1901 Birth of Vincent du Vigneaud 13 June 1901, Death of Truman Henry Safford in Newark, New Jersey, USA 21 August 1901 Birth of Semyon Emmanuilovich Khaikin in Minsk, Belarus 29 September 1901 Birth of Enrico Fermi 25 October 1901 Birth of Dean Benjamin McLaughlin, in Brooklyn, New York, USA 5 December 1901 Birth of Werner Karl Heisenberg 1901 Birth of Henry Eyring 1901 Birth of Linus Pauling 1901 Death of François Marie Raoult 1901 Birth of Merle Antony Tuve 1901 Birth of Peter [Piet] Van de Kamp 1901 Birth of Otto Hermann Leopold Heckmann 1901 Birth of Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant --- Nobel Prize Physics to WILHELM CONRAD RÖNTGEN in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him. Chemistry to Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions" Physiology or Medicine to Prize Emil Adolf von Behring "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths"
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