1914 in science

1914 in science

The year 1914 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy and space exploration

* Sinope, the outermost known moon of Jupiter was discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Lick Observatory.
* A 76 cm refracting telescope is built at Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the fifth largest refractor in the world.
* Robert Goddard begins building rockets.
* Walter Sydney Adams determines an incredibly high density for Sirius B.

Physics

* James Franck and Gustav Hertz observe atomic excitation
* Ernest Rutherford suggests that the positively charged atomic nucleus contains protons

Technology

* W. H. Carrier patents design of the air conditioner
* Kodak introduced the Autographic system.

Awards

*Nobel Prize
** Physics - Max von Laue
** Chemistry - Theodore William Richards
** Medicine - Robert Bárány

Births

* 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 and physicist, Nobelaureate in Physics (2002)
* October 21 - Martin Gardner, writer on mathematics and games.
* October 28 - Jonas Salk (d. 1995), medical researcher.

Deaths

* January 24 - David Gill (b. 1843), astronomer.
* March 30 - John Henry Poynting (b. 1852), physicist, discovered the Poynting-Robertson effect and developed the Poynting 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 the Sierra Club.

Other events

* Manifesto of the Ninety-Three proclaimed in Germany.


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