- 1923 in science
The year 1923 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Aeronautics
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Juan de la Cierva invents theautogyro , a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotorExpeditions
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Tanager Expedition Awards
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Nobel Prize s
** Physics:Robert Andrews Millikan
** Chemistry:Fritz Pregl
** Medicine:Frederick Grant Banting andJohn James Richard Macleod
*Copley Medal :Horace Lamb
*Wollaston Medal for Geology:William Whitaker Births
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February 13 -Chuck Yeager , pilot
*March 9 -Walter Kohn , physicist
*April 2 -G. Spencer-Brown , mathematician
*September 9 -Daniel Carleton Gajdusek , virologist
*November 18 -Alan Shepard (d. 1998),astronaut .Deaths
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February 10 -Wilhelm Röntgen (b. 1845),physicist , discoverer ofX-ray s, Nobel laureate.
*February 24 -Edward Morley (b. 1838),chemist .
*March 8 -Johannes Diderik van der Waals (b. 1837),physicist .
*March 27 -James Dewar (b.1842),chemist .
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