Chemistry
- February - Daniel J. O'Conor and Herbert A. Faber file for a United States patent on the composite plastic laminate Formica.
- Protactinium is first identified by Kasimir Fajans and O. H. Göhring.
- Henry Moseley shows that nuclear charge is the real basis for numbering the elements and discovers a systematic relation between wavelength and atomic number by using x-ray spectra obtained by diffraction in crystals. Frederick Soddy proposes that isotopes may have differing atomic weights.
- J. J. Thomson shows that charged subatomic particles can be separated by their mass-to-charge ratio, the technique known as mass spectrometry.
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