1914 In Science

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 Brny 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.

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