The year 1912 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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- January 21 – Konrad Emil Bloch (died 2000), German-born biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- January 27 – Francis Rogallo (died 2009), American aeronautical engineer.
- January 30 – Werner Hartmann (died 1988), German physicist.
- February 13 – Natan Yavlinsky (died 1962), Russian nuclear physicist.
- February 25 – Preben von Magnus (died 1973), Danish virologist.
- March 1 – Boris Chertok (died 2011), Russian rocket designer.
- March 19 – Bill Frankland (died 2020), English immunologist.
- March 23 – Wernher von Braun (died 1977), German-born physicist and engineer.
- April 19 – Glenn T. Seaborg (died 1999), American physical chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- May 22 – Herbert C. Brown (died 2004), English-born chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- May 28 – Ruby Payne-Scott (died 1981), Australian radioastronomer.
- May 30 – Julius Axelrod (died 2004), American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- May 31 – Chien-Shiung Wu (died 1997), Chinese-American nuclear physicist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Physics.
- June 23 – Alan Turing (died 1954), English computer scientist.[21]
- June 30 – Ludwig Bölkow (died 2003), German aeronautical engineer.
- August 11 – Norman Levinson (died 1975), American mathematician.
- August 13 – Salvador Luria (died 1991), Italian-born biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- August 30 – Edward Mills Purcell (died 1997), American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.[22]
- September 7 – David Packard (died 1996), American electronics engineer.[23]
- September 22 – Herbert Mataré (died 2011), German physicist.
- October 1 – Kathleen Ollerenshaw (died 2014), English mathematician.
- November 14 – Tung-Yen Lin (died 2003), Chinese-born civil engineer.
- November 19 – George Emil Palade (died 2008), Romanian-born microbiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- November 22 – Paul Zamecnik (died 2009), American scientist playing a central role in the early history of molecular biology.
- February 10 – Joseph Lister (born 1827), English inventor of antiseptic.
- February 12 – Osborne Reynolds (born 1842), British physicist.
- March 19 – Thomas Harrison Montgomery Jr. (born 1873), American zoologist and cell biologist.
- March 28 – Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (born 1838), French chemist.
- March 29
- April 18 – Martha Ripley (born 1843), American physician.[24]
- May 4 – Nettie Stevens (born 1861), American geneticist.
- May 30 – Wilbur Wright (born 1867), American aviation pioneer.
- July 17 – Henri Poincaré (born 1854), French mathematician.
- August 7 – François-Alphonse Forel (born 1841), Swiss pioneer of limnology.
- November 23 – Charles Bourseul (born 1829), French telegraph engineer.
- December 17 – Spiru Haret (born 1851), Romanian mathematician, astronomer and politician.
- December 21 – Paul Gordan (born 1837), German Jewish mathematician, "the king of invariant theory".
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Deutsche Reichs Patent no. 281687 (4 July 1913); abstract in Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry (London) 34 (1915) p. 623.
Bernschneider-Reif, S.; Oxler, F.; Freudenmann, R. W. (2006). "The Origin of MDMA ("Ecstasy") – Separating the Facts From the Myths". Die Pharmazie. 61 (11): 966–972. PMID 17152992.
Wegener, Alfred (January 6, 1912). "Die Herausbildung der Grossformen der Erdrinde (Kontinente und Ozeane), auf geophysikalischer Grundlage". Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen. 63: 185–195, 253–256, 305–309.
Hashimoto, H. (1912). "Zur Kenntnis der lymphomatösen Veränderung der Schilddrüse (Struma lymphomatosa)". Archiv für Klinische Chirurgie (in German). 97: 219–248.
Brooks, John (2003). "The Admiralty Fire Control Tables". Warship: 69–93.