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1914 in science and technology consisted of many events. Some of them are below.
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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 air conditioner
- Kodak introduced the Autographic system.
Nobel Prizes
- Max von Laue is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
- Theodore William Richards is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- Robert Bárány is awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine
Births
- February 17 - Armin Kutzsche (d. 1997), medical researcher.
- 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 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.