- 1911 in science
The year 1911 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Exploration
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December 14 - Norwegian polar explorerRoald Amundsen and a team of four, become the first people to reach theSouth Pole .Physics
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Ernest Rutherford explains theGeiger-Marsden experiment and derives the Rutherford cross section by deducing the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from scattering experiments. He proposes theRutherford model of the atom and demonstrates thatJ. J. Thomson 'splum pudding model was incorrect.
*Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers the phenonomena ofsuperconductivity .
* Charles Wilson finishes a sophisticatedcloud chamber Technology
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January 18 -Eugene Ely lands on the deck of the "USS Pennsylvania" anchored inSan Francisco Bay , marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
*Georges Claude develops theneon lamp .Awards
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Nobel Prize s
** Physics -Wilhelm Wien
** Chemistry -Marie Curie
** Medicine -Allvar Gullstrand Births
Deaths
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January 17 - SirFrancis Galton (b. 1822), explorer andbiologist .
*December 10 -Joseph Dalton Hooker (b. 1817),botanist .
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