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==Chemistry== * [[Albert Einstein]] and [[Marian Smoluchowski]] find the Einstein-Smoluchowski formula for the attenuation coefficient due to density fluctuations in a gas. * [[Umetaro Suzuki]] isolates the first [[vitamin]] complex, [[aberic acid]].<ref>[http://www.journalarchive.jst.go.jp/english/jnlabstract_en.php?cdjournal=nikkashi1880&cdvol=32&noissue=1&startpage=4 ''Tokyo Kagaku Kaishi'' (1911)]{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> * [[Hoechst AG]] market [[Arsphenamine]] under the [[trade name]] ''[[Salvarsan]]'', the first organic antisyphilitic, its properties having been discovered the previous fall by bacteriologist [[Sahachiro Hata]] during systematic testing in the laboratory of [[Paul Ehrlich]]; it rapidly becomes the world's most widely prescribed drug.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/83/8325/8325salvarsan.html|title=Salvarsan|work=[[Chemical & Engineering News]]|year=2005|publisher=[[American Chemical Society]]|accessdate=2011-12-31}}</ref> * [[George Barger]] and James Ewens of [[Wellcome Trust|Wellcome]] Laboratories in London first synthesize [[dopamine]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Fahn|first=S.|title=The history of dopamine and levodopa in the treatment of Parkinson's disease|journal=Movement Disorders|volume=23 Suppl 3|pages=S497β508|year=2008|pmid=18781671|doi=10.1002/mds.22028|s2cid=45572523}}</ref> * [[Frederick Soddy]] shows that the radioelements [[mesothorium]] (later shown to be <sup>228</sup>Ra), [[radium]] (<sup>226</sup>Ra, the longest-lived isotope), and [[Isotopes of radium|thorium X]] (<sup>224</sup>Ra) are impossible to separate, leading to the identification of [[isotope]]s.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Nagel|first=Miriam C.|title=Frederick Soddy: From Alchemy to Isotopes|journal=Journal of Chemical Education|year=1982|volume=59|pages=739β740|doi=10.1021/ed059p739|issue=9|bibcode = 1982JChEd..59..739N }}</ref>
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