1917 In Science

Mathematics

• Paul Ehrenfest gives conditional principle a three dimensional space,

Physics

• Albert Einstein introduces the idea of stimulated radiation emission

Nobel Prizes

• Charles Glover Barkla is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics

Births

• January 25 - Ilya Prigogine (d. 2003), chemist, Nobellaurette in chemistry.
• February 14 - Herbert A. Hauptman, future biophysicist

Deaths

• March 8 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin (b. 1838), founder of the Zeppelin airship company.
• March 31 - Emil Adolf von Behring (b. 1854), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901.
• July 27 - Emil Theodor Kocher (b. 1841), 1909 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• August 3 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (b. 1849), German mathematician.

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