1907 in science

See also: 1906 in science, other events of 1907, 1908 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Chemistry 2 Geology 3 Physics 4 Psychology 5 Medicine 6 Technology 7 Nobel Prizes 8 Births 9 Deaths

Chemistry

• Emil Fischer artificially synthesizes peptide amino acid chains and thereby shows that amino acids in proteins are connected by amino group-acid group bonds
• Georges Urbain discovered Lutetium. From Lutetia (ancient name of Paris).

• Albert Einstein introduces the principle of equivalence of gravitation and inertia and uses it to predict the gravitational redshift

• Ivan Pavlov demonstrates conditioned responses with salivating dogs

• Paul Ehrlich develops a chemotherapeutic cure for sleeping sickness

• Lee DeForest invents the triode thermionic amplifier, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology.
• The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.

• Albert Abraham Michelson is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
• Eduard Buchner is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
• Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran is awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine

• July 7 - Robert Heinlein, future science fiction author

• January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, chemist
• December 17 - William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, physicist (* 1824)