Physics
- Oliver Heaviside and Arthur E. Kennelly independently predict the existence of what will become known as the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer of the ionosphere.
- James Jeans finds the length scale required for gravitational perturbations to grow in a static nearly homogeneous medium.
- Philipp Lenard observes that maximum photoelectron energies are independent of illuminating intensity but depend on frequency.
- Gilbert N. Lewis develops the cubical atom atomic model.
- Theodor Svedberg suggests that fluctuations in molecular bombardment cause the Brownian motion.
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