In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of physicist Ernest Rutherford, bombarded a sheet of gold foil with alpha rays — by then known to be positively charged helium atoms — and discovered that a small percentage of these particles were deflected through much larger angles than was predicted using Thomson's proposal.

This opinion proved fateful, because Eliot, while President of Harvard 1869 – 1909 — a period encompassing nearly all of Peirce's working life — repeatedly vetoed Harvard's employing Peirce in any capacity.

Sadly, Minkowski — Hilbert's " best and truest friend " — died prematurely of a ruptured appendix in 1909.

Hermann Ebbinghaus ( January 24, 1850 — February 26, 1909 ) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.

" Pickford appeared in 51 films in 1909 — almost one a week.

* The Houghton's papyri — the collection at Houghton Library, Harvard University was acquired between 1901 and 1909 thanks to a donation from the Egypt Exploration Fund.

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The three previous claims to have arrived at the North Pole — by Frederick Cook in 1908 ; Robert Peary in 1909 ; and Richard Evelyn Byrd in 1926 ( just a few days before the Norge )— are all disputed, as being either of dubious accuracy or outright fraud.

John Haynes Holmes, a Unitarian minister and social activist at The Community Church of New York — Unitarian Universalist was among the founders of both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) in 1909 and the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ), chairing the latter for a time.

* October 26, 1909 — Korean nationalist An Jung-geun assassinates Ito Hirobumi, a former Prime Minister of Japan, in Harbin, China, in protest of the Japanese annexation of Korea.

While he continued some work from the Board of Trade — for example, legislation to establish a Port of London authority and to pursue traditional Liberal programmes such as licensing law reforms — his first major trial in this role was over the 1908 – 1909 Naval Estimates.

* Austrian — Noetzel, Hermann: Pierrot's Summer Night ( 1924 ); Schnitzler, Arthur: The Transformations of Pierrot ( 1908 ), The Veil of Pierrette ( 1910 ; with music by Ernö Dohnányi ; see also " Stuppner " among the Italian composers under Western classical music ( instrumental ) below ); Schreker, Franz: The Blue Flower, or The Heart of Pierrot: A Tragic Pantomime ( 1909 ), The Bird, or Pierrot's Mania: A Pantomimic Comedy ( 1909 ).

* British — Burnaby, Davy: The Co-Optimists ( revue of 1921 — and revised continually up to 1926 — played in Pierrot costumes, with music and lyrics by various entertainers ; filmed in 1929 ); Cannan, Gilbert: Pierrot in Hospital ( 1923 ); " Cryptos " and James T. Tanner: Our Miss Gibbs ( 1909 ; musical comedy played in Pierrot costumes ); Down, Oliphant: The Maker of Dreams ( 1912 ); Drinkwater, John: The Only Legend: A Masque of the Scarlet Pierrot ( 1913 ; music by James Brier ); Housman, Laurence, and Harley Granville-Barker: Prunella: or, Love in a Dutch Garden ( 1906, rev.

* Mexican — Rubio, Darío: Pierrot ( 1909 ).

* British — Gordon, Harry: Scottish entertainer ( 1893 – 1957 )— formed a Pierrot troupe in 1909 that played both in theaters and at seaside piers in the northeast of Scotland.

* French — Burguet, Paul Henry: The Imprint, or The Red Hand ( 1908 ; Gaston Séverin plays Pierrot ); Carné, Marcel: Children of Paradise ( 1945 ; see above under The Pantomime of Deburau at the Théâtre des Funambules ); Carré fils, Michel: The Prodigal Son a. k. a. Pierrot the Prodigal ( 1907 ; the first feature-length film and the first film of a stage-play Carré's pantomime of 1890 ; George Wague plays Pierrot père ); Feuillade, Louis: Pierrot's Projector ( 1909 ), Pierrot, Pierrette ( 1924 ); Guitry, Sacha: Deburau ( 1951 ; based upon Guitry's own stage-play # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guy, Alice: Pierrot, Murderer ( 1904 ); Leprince, René: Pierrot Loves Roses ( 1910 ); Méliès, Georges: By Moonlight, or The Unfortunate Pierrot ( 1904 ).

* June 27 – Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer ( b. 1909 )

From 1909, Albert attended the Royal Naval College, Osborne, as a naval cadet.

* American — Bloch, Albert: Many works, including Harlequinade ( 1911 ), Piping Pierrot ( 1911 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( 1913 ), Three Pierrots and Harlequin ( 1914 ); Bradley, Will: Various posters and illustrations ( see, e. g., " Banning " under Poetry below ); Heintzelman, Arthur William: Pierrot ( n. d .); Hopper, Edward: Soir Bleu ( 1914 ); Kuhn, Walt: The White Clown ( 1929 ); Parrish, Maxfield: Pierrot's Serenade ( 1908 ), The Lantern-Bearers ( 1908 ), Her Window ( 1922 ); Sloan, John: Clown Making Up ( 1909 ).

On December 17, 1909, Leopold II died at Laeken, and the Belgian crown passed to Albert, the son of Leopold's brother, Philip, Count of Flanders.

Albert I ( April 8, 1875 – February 17, 1934 ) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1909 through 1934.

Shortly before his accession to the throne in 1909, Albert undertook an extensive tour of the Belgian Congo, which had been annexed by Belgium in 1908 ( after having been previously owned by King Leopold II of Belgium as his personal property ), finding the area in poor condition.

Following the death of his uncle, Leopold II, Albert succeeded to the Belgian throne in December 1909, since Albert's own father had already died in 1905.

In 1909, Albert Murphree was appointed the second president of the university, and organized several of the colleges of the university, increased enrollment from under 200 to over 2, 000, and he was instrumental in the founding of the Florida Blue Key leadership society.

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It was named for Albert W. Gilchrist, Governor of Florida from 1909 to 1913.

During the election campaign Lloyd George talked of “ guarantees ” and Asquith ( in his Albert Hall Speech, December 1909 ) of “ safeguards ” which would be necessary before forming another Liberal government, but in fact the King informed Asquith that he would not even be willing to contemplate creating peers until after a second General Election.

However, Sigmund Feist ( 1909 ) rejects the theory on etymological grounds, as does Albert Morley Sturtevant ( 1951 ) on the grounds of major difficulties, and their points have led Bruce Lincoln ( 1977 ) to comment that " there is no reason whatever to contend that nagl-does not have its usual meaning of " nail " and that Naglfar is anything other than the nail-ship, just as Snorri describes it.

** John Albert Johnson ( 1905 – 1909 )

Albert Edward Mead was the fifth Governor of Washington and served in that position from 1905 to 1909.

Between 1909 and 1931, a collection of 72, 000 Autochrome photographs, documenting life at the time in 50 countries around the world, was created by French banker Albert Kahn.

The trophy was commissioned in 1909 by Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, Canada's Governor General, who originally hoped to donate it for Canada's senior amateur hockey championship.

* King Albert I of Belgium, who succeeded his uncle Leopold II in 1909

John Albert Johnson ( July 28, 1861September 21, 1909 ) was an American politician.

He became the 17th Governor of Minnesota on September 21, 1909, when Governor John Albert Johnson died, and served until January 5, 1915.

Adele and Albert undertook two major decoration efforts at the estate: the first at the mansion's initial outfitting in 1909 which incorporated earlier Herter Brothers furnishings, new Tiffany lamps designed by Albert Herter, original wall hangings and works of art by both Albert and Adele as well as by other California artists.

Franz Albert Seyn () ( July 27, 1862-summer of 1918 ) was a Russian general who was Governor-General of Finland between November 24, 1909 and March 16, 1917.

He lost championship matches to Max Judd ( 1890, + 3-7 = 0 ), S. Lipschütz ( 1892, + 1-7 = 7 ), Albert Hodges ( 1894, + 3-5 = 1 ), Harry Nelson Pillsbury ( twice, 1897 (+ 7-11 = 3 ) and 1898 (+ 3-7 = 2 ), and Frank Marshall ( 1909, + 2-7 = 3 ).

Using this approximation, Einstein reproduced the incorrect Newtonian value for the deflection of light in 1909.

The Einsteins lived in Bern until 1909, when Einstein got a teaching position at the University of Zürich.

In 1909 and 1912 Einstein explained:

* Rum och tid enligt Einstein och Minkowski, 1909, published in a series of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters: Öfversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societetens Förhandlingar