1931 in science

overview of natural science-related events during the year of 1931

thumb|right|Station Eismitte in 1930 thumb|The three scientists manning the station: Ernst Sorge, Fritz Loewe and Johannes Georgi with one of the [[aerosledges of the expedition.]] Eismitte, also called Mid-Ice in English, was a meteorological station established, in the middle of the Greenland Ice Sheet, by the 1930-31 German Greenland Expedition. The venture took place from July 1930 until August 1931, and established three Arctic stations on the same parallel. The expedition leader, German scientist Alfred Wegener, died during a trip back from Eismitte, in early November 1930. The station w

partial solar eclipse of 1931

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20th-century partial solar eclipse

20th-century partial solar eclipse

blackboard used by Albert Einstein on 16 May 1931 lectures at the University of Oxford