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Kennelly–Heaviside layer in atmosphere ---------------- 12 February 1902 discovery of 481 Emita 3 March 1902 discovery of 482 Petrina 4 March 1902 discovery of 483 Seppina 29 April 1902 discovery of 484 Pittsburghia 7 May 1902 discovery of 485 Genua 11 May 1902 discovery of 486 Cremona 26 June 1902 discovery of 488 Kreusa 9 July 1902 discovery of 487 Venetia 2 September 1902 discovery of 489 Comacina 3 September 1902 discovery of 490 Veritas, 491 Carina and 492 Gismonda 7 September 1902 discovery of 493 Griseldis and 494 Virtus 25 October 1902 discovery of 495 Eulalia and 496 Gryphia 4 November 1902 discovery of 497 Iva 2 December 1902 discovery of 498 Tokio 24 December 1902 discovery of 499 Venusia --- 27 January 1902 Birth of Margaret Walton Mayall, in Iron Hill, Maryland, USA 10 February 1902 Birth of Walter Houser Brattain 10 April 1902 Birth of Vincenzo Consolato Antonino Ferraro in London, England 19 June 1902 Death of Wallace John Eckert in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 4 July 1902 Death of Hervé Faye in Paris, France 11 July 1902 Birth of Samuel Abraham Goudsmit in Den Haag, The Netherlands 17 November 1902 Birth of Eugene Paul Wigner 10 August 1902 Birth of Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius 1902 Birth of Paul Harteck 1902 Birth of Grace Hopper 1902 Birth of Barbara McClintock 1902 Birth of Sidnie Milana Manton 1902 Birth of Jesse Leonard Greenstein 1902 Birth of Rolf Wideroe February 1902 Death of Johann Nepomuk Krieger in Munich, Germany --- Nobel Prize Physics to HENDRIK ANTOON LORENTZ and PIETER ZEEMAN in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena. Chemistry to Hermann Emil Fischer "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses" Physiology or Medicine to Ronald Ross "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it"
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