- 1914 in science
The year 1914 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy and space exploration
* Sinope, the outermost known moon of Jupiter was discovered by
Seth Barnes Nicholson atLick Observatory .
* A 76 cmrefracting telescope is built atAllegheny Observatory inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania . It is the fifth largest refractor in the world.
* Robert Goddard begins buildingrocket s.
*Walter Sydney Adams determines an incredibly highdensity forSirius B .Physics
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James Franck andGustav Hertz observe atomic excitation
*Ernest Rutherford suggests that the positively charged atomic nucleus containsproton sTechnology
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W. H. Carrier patents design of theair conditioner
*Kodak introduced theAutographic system.Awards
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Nobel Prize
** Physics -Max von Laue
** Chemistry -Theodore William Richards
** Medicine -Robert Bárány Births
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March 8 -Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (d. 1987),astrophysicist .
*May 19 -Max Perutz (d. 2002),biologist .
*October 6 -Thor Heyerdahl (d. 2002), explorer, led the "Kon-Tiki " expedition.
*October 14 -Raymond Davis Jr. (d. 2006),chemist andphysicist , Nobelaureate inPhysics (2002)
*October 21 -Martin Gardner , writer onmathematics and games.
*October 28 -Jonas Salk (d. 1995), medical researcher.Deaths
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January 24 -David Gill (b. 1843),astronomer .
*March 30 -John Henry Poynting (b. 1852),physicist , discovered thePoynting-Robertson effect and developed thePoynting vector .
*April 16 -George William Hill (b. 1838),astronomer .
*April 26 -Eduard Suess (b. 1831),geologist .
*May 27 -Joseph Swan (b. 1828),physicist .
*November 5 -August Weismann (b. 1834),biologist .
*December 24 -John Muir (b. 1838),geologist ,ecologist , founder of theSierra Club .Other events
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