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| 1901: | Instigation of Six of the Seven Nobel Prizes,
Marconi Receives First Trans-Atlantic Radio Signal Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen receives Nobel Prize in physics (Röntgen radiation) |
| 1902: | Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman receive Nobel
Prize in physics
(effect of magnetism on radioactivity)
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| 1903: | Macedonian Ilinden (or St. Elijah's Day) Uprising against the Turkish
Ottoman Empire
Antoine Henri Becquerel receives Nobel Prize in physics (radioactivity) |
| 1904: | Fleming Invents the First Electron Tube (a sensative diode detector
utilizing the
Edison Effect),
Lord John William Strutt Rayleigh receives Nobel Prize in physics (gas densities & argon discovery)
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| 1905: | Einstein introduces the photon (Planck's
quantization) to explain the Photoelectric Effect
Einstein proposes the special theory of relativity Philipp Eduard Anton Lenard receives Nobel Prize in physics (cathode rays) |
| 1906: | DeForest Invents the Triode (electronic amplification which led to
Armstrong's
Amplifier),
Sir Joseph John Thomson receives Nobel Prize in physics (electrical conductivity of gases) |
| 1907: | Albert Abraham Michelson receives Nobel
Prize in physics
(optical precision, spectroscopy, meteorology)
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| 1908: | Gabriel Lippmann receives Nobel Prize in physics (color interference) |
| 1909: | First US ship to use the radio distress call "SOS"
Guglielmo Marconi (See 1901) and Carl Ferdinand Braun receive Nobel Prize in physics (wireless telegraphy)
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| 1910: | Fisher patents the electric washing machine
Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals receives Nobel Prize in physics (gas and liquid state equation)
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