1903 in Science - Births

Births

  • January 22 - Fritz Houtermans (died 1966), physicist.
  • January 27 - John Carew Eccles (died 1997), psychologist.
  • January 28 - Kathleen Lonsdale, née Yardley (died 1971), Irish-born crystallographer.
  • February 2 - Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (died 1996), mathematician.
  • February 22 - Frank P. Ramsey (died 1930), mathematician.
  • April 6 - Doc Edgerton, (died 1990), professor electrical engineer.
  • April 25 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (died 1987), mathematician.
  • May 2 - Benjamin Spock (died 1998), pediatrician, writer.
  • June 14 - Alonzo Church (died 1995), American mathematician.
  • August 7 - Louis Leakey (died 1972), British archaeologist.
  • October 5 - M. King Hubbert (died 1989), geophysicist.
  • November 7 - Konrad Lorenz (died 1989), zoologist.
  • November 27 - Lars Onsager (died 1976), chemist.
  • December 28 - John von Neumann (died 1957), mathematician.

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