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The year 1912 in science and technology.

1 Biology

• Horace Donisthorpe first discovers Anergates atratulus in the New Forest, England on July 23rd.

2 Chemistry

• Peter Debye derives the T-cubed law for the low temperature heat capacity of a nonmetallic solid

3 Exploration

• March 7March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). There are 299 days remaining. Events 1799 Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. 1848 The Great - Roald AmundsenRoald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen ( July 16, 1872 June 18, 1928?) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition of 1911 1912 which was the first to reach the South Pole. Amundsen was born to a family of Norwegian shipowners a announces discovery of the South PoleAntarctic Treaty signatories are arrayed around it, and the Pole Station's old dome is in the background. The polar ice cap and the South Pole station on it are constantly moving relative to the actual, Geographic South Pole. The South Pole is the souther.

4 Geology

• Alfred WegenerAlfred Lothar Wegener ( Berlin, November 1, 1880 Greenland, November, 1930) was a German interdisciplinary scientist whose early training had been in astronomy ( PhD, University of Berlin, 1905). He became interested in the new discipline of meteorology a proposes the theoryIn mathematics, a theory is a set of statements closed under logical implication. In mathematical logic, "theory" is the term for a set of well-formed formulae consisting of certain axioms and all theorems provable from said axioms. Godel's incompleteness of continental driftThe concept of continental drift was first proposed by Alfred Wegener. In 1912 he noticed that the shapes of continents on either side of the Atlantic Ocean seem to fit together (for example, Africa and South America). Benjamin Franklin and others had not.

5 Medicine

• Kazimierz Funk identifies vitamins.

6 Physics

• Victor Hess discovers that the ionization of air increases with altitude, indicating the existence of cosmic radiation.
• Max von Laue suggests using lattice solids to diffract X-rays
• Walter Friedrich and Paul Knipping diffract X-rays in zinc blende