1901
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Events
- January 1 – Nathan Stubblefield demonstrates his wireless telephone device in Kentucky.
- December 10 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm, on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, a German physicist, receives the first Nobel Prize in Physics for his research into x-rays.
- December 12 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from England to Newfoundland; it is the letter "S" in Morse Code.
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