- 1917 in science
The year 1917 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Mathematics
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Paul Ehrenfest gives a conditional principle for a three dimensional space,Physics
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Albert Einstein introduces the idea of stimulated radiation emissionAwards
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Nobel Prize
** Physics -Charles Glover Barkla
** Chemistry - not awarded
** Medicine - not awardedBirths
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January 25 -Ilya Prigogine (d. 2003), chemist, Nobel laureate in chemistry.
*February 14 -Herbert A. Hauptman , future biophysicistDeaths
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March 8 -Ferdinand von Zeppelin (b. 1838), founder of theZeppelin airship company.
*March 31 -Emil Adolf von Behring (b. 1854), winner of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in1901 .
*July 27 -Emil Theodor Kocher (b. 1841), 1909 winner of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
*August 3 -Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (b. 1849), Germanmathematician .
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