The Christian hymn " The Lord is in His Holy Temple ", written in 1900 by William J. Kirkpatrick, is based on verse 2: 20.

* Electric Chair at Sing Sing, a 1900 photograph by William M. Vander Weyde, accompanied by a poem by Jared Carter.

Both Cecil ( Class of 1900 ) and William ( Class of 1901 ) graduated from the Academy, which they attended on scholarship.

In 1900, Jones studied briefly at William Tilly's Marburg Language Institute in Germany where he was first introduced to phonetics.

Edward Lippincott Tilton and William A. Boring won the 1897 competition to design the first phase, including the Main Building ( 1897 – 1900 ), Kitchen and Laundry Building ( 1900 – 01 ), Main Powerhouse ( 1900 – 01 ), and the Main Hospital Building ( 1900 – 01 ).

Architects Edward Lippincott Tilton and William Alciphron Boring received a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition for the building's design.

Another " singing arc " was described by William Duddell in 1900 ; Duddell used carbon electrodes but did not use a magnetic blowout.

Although the term is not documented until 1900, a conjectural etymology for the term is that it originated in 17th century Ireland for Protestant supporters of King William III during the Williamite War.

* 1900 – William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist ( d. 1991 )

* 2009 – William Frederick " Bill " Stone, British World War I veteran ( b. 1900 )

* William Jelly ( 1835 – 1900 ), politician

Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, well known for their generational theory, define the Lost Generation as the cohorts born from 1883 to 1900, who came of age during World War I and the roaring twenties.

Supported in part by grants from the Council on Library Resources, William J. Barrow conducted research into paper decay and found that no more than three percent of the books published between 1900 and 1949 would survive more than fifty years.

* 1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.

* Montgomery, William G. ( 1993 ) Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865 – 1900, Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 0-8071-1745-5

In 1900, a disagreement between William and white financial supporters of Witherspoon arose with apparent racial undertones, which were prevalent in Princeton.

In 1900, William Crookes isolated protactinium as an intensely radioactive material from uranium ; however, he could not characterize it as a new chemical element and thus named it uranium-X.

In 1900 and 1901, Harvard Observatory director William Henry Pickering led two searches for trans-Neptunian planets.

* 1900 – William Marsh Rice, American businessman, founded Rice University ( b. 1816 )

* William Leslie Edison ( 1878 – 1937 ) Inventor, graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, 1900.

In 1900, for example, William A. Clark had his election voided after the Senate concluded that he had bought eight of his fifteen votes in the Montana legislature.

In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft Governor-General of the Philippines.

The first theoretical description of metals was given by Paul Drude in 1900 with the Drude model, which explained electrical and thermal properties by describing a metal as an ideal gas of then-newly discovered electrons.

However, in 1900 the French scientist Paul Villard discovered a third neutrally charged and especially penetrating type of radiation from radium, and after he described it, Rutherford realized it must be yet a third type of radiation, which in 1903 Rutherford named gamma rays.

Japanese chemist Jokichi Takamine and his assistant Keizo Uenaka independently discovered adrenaline in 1900.

Phosphate was discovered on Nauru in 1900 by the prospector Albert Ellis.

This symbol for the photon probably derives from gamma rays, which were discovered in 1900 by Paul Villard, named by Ernest Rutherford in 1903, and shown to be a form of electromagnetic radiation in 1914 by Rutherford and Edward Andrade.

In 1900, Lord Kelvin famously stated, " There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now.

In 1900 the French scientist Paul Villard discovered a third neutrally charged and especially penetrating type of radiation from radium, and after he described it, Rutherford realized it must be yet a third type of radiation, which in 1903 Rutherford named gamma rays.

The ore reserves were discovered to be less than previously thought in late 1900, and the share price crashed.

The Antikythera mechanism, discovered in 1900 in a wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera and extensively studied, exhibited the diurnal motions of the sun, moon, and the five known planets.

Many of the p-block elements have been known since antiquity, and all naturally occurring p-block elements with the exception of astatine were discovered before 1900.

Copper ore was discovered in about 1900 along the northern edge of the Chitina River valley.

Copper was discovered between the Kennicott Glacier and McCarthy Creek in 1900, after which Kennecott mines, Kennecott Mining Company, and company town of Kennecott were created.

In 1900, a major archeological find occurred near Wilson when James K. Hampson discovered the Island 35 Mastodon.

The town boomed briefly after oil was discovered in 1900 in the Powell-Mildred field, with its population growing to several hundred.

After the Civil War, rich iron ore deposits were discovered in the area and ore was mined sporadically from the 1860s through 1900.

The town's population grew slowly until 1917, when oil was discovered nearby ; the population tripled from 878 in 1900 to 2, 544 in 1920.

About 1900, large oil reserves were discovered in Silurian and Devonian carbonate reservoirs in east-central Kentucky.

In one such cave, in the year 1900, Wang discovered a walled up area behind one side of a corridor leading to a main cave.

In 2006 Australian historians and scientists authenticated a tiny brass plate ( 15 cm x 2 cm ) marked " LUDWIG LEICHHARDT 1848 ", discovered in around 1900 by an Aboriginal stockman near Sturt Creek, between the Tanami and Great Sandy deserts, just inside Western Australia from the border with the Northern Territory.

The prototype star RR Lyrae was discovered prior to 1899 by Williamina Fleming, and reported by Pickering in 1900 as " indistinguishable from cluster-type variables ".

After receiving a law degree from the University of Mississippi in 1900, he practiced law for three months at Clarksdale, Mississippi, before moving to Beaumont, Texas, when oil was discovered at the Spindletop oilfield.

A Latin version of the first five chapters was discovered in 1900 by J. Schlecht.

In 1900 Sperry established an electrochemical laboratory at Washington, D. C., where he and his associate, Clifton P. Townshend, developed a process for making pure caustic soda from salt and discovered a process for recovering tin from scrap metal.

At the NAWSA convention in 1900, Maud Wood Park discovered that, at the age of 29, she was the youngest delegate present.

Environmental issues started to become important after curly-leaf pondweed ( Potamogeton crispus L .) was discovered in 1900.