The year 1906 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
- African Invertebrates begins publication as Annals of the Natal Government Museum; it will be continuing publication more than a century later.
- January 6 – G. Ledyard Stebbins (died 2000), American botanist and geneticist.
- January 10 – Grigore Moisil (died 1973), Romanian mathematician.
- January 11 – Albert Hofmann (died 2008), Swiss chemist.
- February 3
- February 4 – Clyde Tombaugh (died 1997), American astronomer.
- February 17 – Elizabeth M. Ramsey (died 1993), American research physician.
- February 18 – Hans Asperger (died 1980), Austrian pediatrician.
- April 28 – Kurt Gödel (died 1978), Austrian mathematician.
- June 13 – Bruno de Finetti (died 1985), Italian statistician.
- June 15 – Gordon Welchman (died 1985), English-born mathematician and cryptanalyst.
- June 18 – Orvan Hess (died 2002), American obstetrician.
- June 23 – Derek Jackson (died 1982), Swiss-born British spectroscopist and steeplechase rider (also his twin brother Vivian).
- June 28 – Maria Göppert (died 1972), German-born theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- July 2 – Hans Bethe (died 2005), German-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- August 19 – Philo Farnsworth (died 1971), American television pioneer.
- September 1 – Karl August Folkers (died 1997), American biochemist.
- September 4 – Max Delbrück (died 1981), German-born biologist.
- September 30 – Vera Faddeeva (died 1983), Soviet mathematician.
- October 2 – Willy Ley (died 1969), German-born scientific populariser.
- November 3 – Carl Benjamin Boyer (died 1976), American historian of mathematics.
- November 5 – Fred Lawrence Whipple (died 2004), American astronomer, coins the term "dirty snowball" to explain the nature of comets.
- November 18 – George Wald (died 1997), American scientist.
- December 9 – Grace Hopper (died 1992), American computer scientist.
- December 25 – Ernst Ruska (died 1988), German physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- ^ Tswett, Mikhail (1906). "Physikalisch-Chemische Studien über das Chlorophyll: Die Adsorption". Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft. 24: 316–326.
- ^ Tswett, Mikhail (1906). "Adsorptionanalyse und chromatographische Methode: Anwendung auf die Chemie des Chlorophylls". Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft. 24: 384–393.
- ^ Reid, H. F. (1910). The Mechanics of the Earthquake, The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the State Investigation Commission. Vol. 2. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington.
- ^ Bragg, William (1936). "Tribute to Deceased Fellows of the Royal Society". Science. 84 (2190): 539–46. Bibcode:1936Sci....84..539B. doi:10.1126/science.84.2190.539. PMID 17834950.
- ^ Porter, Roy (1997). The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: a medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present. London: HarperCollins. p. 474. ISBN 978-0-00-215173-3.
- ^ Alzheimer, Alois (1907). "Über eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde". Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie und Psychisch-Gerichtlich Medizin. 64 (1–2): 146–148.
- ^ Maurer, Konrad; Ulrike (2003). Alzheimer: the Life of a Physician and Career of a Disease. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11896-5.
- ^ Berchtold, N. C.; Cotman, C. W. (1998). "Evolution in the conceptualization of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: Greco-Roman period to the 1960s". Neurobiology of Aging. 19 (3): 173–89. doi:10.1016/S0197-4580(98)00052-9. PMID 9661992.
- ^ Bancroft, T. L. (1906). "On the aetiology of dengue fever". Australian Medical Gazette. 25: 17–18.
- ^ Dyson, George (2012). Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe. Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-375-42277-5.
- ^ "17.10.1906: First Photoelectric Fax Transmission". Deutsche Welle. 2012-01-04.
- ^ Elliott Laboratories (2003). The Anschutz Gyro-Compass and Gyroscope Engineering. Watchmaker Publishing. pp. 7–24. ISBN 9781929148127.
- ^ Galison, Peter (1987). How Experiments End. University of Chicago Press. pp. 34–37. ISBN 978-0-226-27915-2. Retrieved 2012-02-18.