1914 in science
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The year 1914 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Physics
- James Franck and Gustav Hertz observe atomic excitation
- Ernest Rutherford suggests that the positively charged atomic nucleus contains protons
[edit] Technology
- W. H. Carrier patents design of the air conditioner
- Kodak introduced the Autographic system.
[edit] Awards
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Other events
- Manifesto of the Ninety-Three proclaimed in Germany.
