1923 In Science

Aeronautics

• Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
• Physics: Robert Andrews Millikan
• Chemistry: Fritz Pregl
• Medicine: Frederick Grant Banting and John James Richard Macleod
• Copley Medal: Horace Lamb
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Whitaker

Births

• 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

• February 10 - Wilhelm Rntgen (b. 1845), physicist, discoverer of X-rays, 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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