Editing 1901 in science (section)

==Physics==
* January 23 – [[Guglielmo Marconi]] sends a radio signal 299&nbsp;km (186&nbsp;mi) 'over the horizon' in the British Isles from [[Niton]] on the [[Isle of Wight]] to [[The Lizard]] in [[Cornwall]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Stanier|title=Cornwall's Industrial Heritage|location=Chacewater|publisher=Twelveheads|year=2010|isbn=978-0-906294-57-4|page=14}}</ref>
* December 12 – Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from [[Poldhu]] in Cornwall, England, to [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]], the letter "S" in [[Morse code|Morse]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Gordon|last=Bussey|title=Marconi's Atlantic Leap|location=Coventry|publisher=Marconi|year=2000|isbn=0-9538967-0-6}}</ref>
* [[Albert Einstein]] publishes his conclusions on [[capillarity]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=A.|last=Einstein|title=Folgerungen aus den Capillaritätserscheinungen|url=http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/annalen/history/einstein-papers/1901_4_513-523.pdf|journal=[[Annalen der Physik]]|volume=309|issue=3|pages=513–523|year=1901|doi=10.1002/andp.19013090306|bibcode=1901AnP...309..513E}}</ref>
* [[Owen Richardson]] describes the phenomenon in [[thermionic emission]] which gives rise to Richardson's Law.<ref>{{cite web|author=Nobel Foundation|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928: Owen Willans Richardson|url=http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1928/richardson-bio.html|work=Nobelprize.org|year=1928|accessdate=2012-01-17}}</ref>
* [[Ivan Yarkovsky]] describes the [[Yarkovsky effect]], a [[Heat|thermal]] force acting on rotating bodies in space, in a pamphlet on "The density of light ether and the resistance it offers to motion" published in [[Bryansk]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=The nearly forgotten scientist Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky|last=Beekman|first=George|journal=[[Journal of the British Astronomical Association]]|volume=115|issue=4|pages=207–212|bibcode=2005JBAA..115..207B}}</ref>