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See also: 1909 in science, other events of 1910, 1911 in science and the list of years in science.
Astronomy
- The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
Chemistry
- Albert Einstein and Marian Smoluchowski find the Einstein-Smoluchowski formula for the attenuation coefficient due to density fluctuations in a gas
Physics
- German physicist Theodor Wulf climbs the Eiffel Tower with an electrometer and discovers the first evidence of cosmic rays
- Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordström defines Reissner-Nordström singularity, Hermann Weyl solves special case for a point-body source
Technology
- The first live musical radio program. Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera
- Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France
- Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine
Nobel Prize
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
- Otto Wallach is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- Albrecht Kossel is awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine
Births
- February 9 - Jacques Monod, future biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965
- February 13 - William Bradford Shockley, future physicist
- March 11 - Robert Havemann, future chemist
- May 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, future chemist
Deaths
- May 12 - William Huggins, astronomer (* 1824)
- May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, bacteriologist
