1926 In Science

Astronomy and space exploration

• March 16 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
• Physics - Jean Baptiste Perrin
• Chemistry - Theodor Svedberg
• Medicine - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
• Copley Medal: Frederick Hopkins
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Henry Fairfield Osborn

Births

• January 11 - Lev Demin (d. 1998), cosmonaut.
• April 3 - Gus Grissom (d. 1967), astronaut.

Deaths

• March 5 - Clment Ader (b. 1841), engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer.
• July 21 - Washington Roebling (b. 1837), civil engineer.
• November 26 - John Moses Browning (b. 1855), inventor.

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