- 1934 in science
The year 1934 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy
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Richard Tolman shows thatblack-body radiation in an expanding universe cools but remains thermal.
*Georges Lemaître interprets thecosmological constant as due to avacuum energy with an unusual perfect fluidequation of state .Chemistry
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Mulliken scale ofchemical element electronegativity is developed byRobert S. Mulliken .Physics
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Sonoluminescence is discovered at theUniversity of Cologne .Technology
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135 film cartridge was introduced in Germany and the United States with the Kodak Retina camera, making 35mm film easy to use.Awards
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Nobel Prize
**Physics: not awarded
**Chemistry:Harold Clayton Urey
**Physiology or Medicine:George Hoyt Whipple ,George Richards Minot ,William Parry Murphy Births
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March 9 -Yuri Gagarin (d. 1968), cosmonaut, the first man in space.
*March 31 -Carlo Rubbia ,physicist , Nobel laurette in Physics
*November 9 -Carl Sagan (d. 1996),astronomer .Deaths
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January 29 -Fritz Haber (b. 1868),chemist .
*July 4 -Marie Curie (b. 1867),physicist .
*November 20 -Willem de Sitter (b. 1872),mathematician ,physicist andastronomer .
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