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Overview of the events of 1914 in science
The year 1914 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
Biology and medicine
Chemistry
T. W. Richards finds variations between the atomic weight of lead from different mineral sources, attributable to variations in
isotopic composition due to different radioactive origins.
[7]
[8]
Mathematics
Mineralogy
Physics
Technology
Other events
Awards
Births
February 5 –
Alan Hodgkin (died
1998 ), English
physiologist , winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1963).
[14]
February 22 –
Renato Dulbecco (died
2012 ), Italian-born
virologist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975).
March 5 –
He Zehui (died
2011 ), Chinese nuclear physicist.
March 8 –
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (died
1987 ),
Russian
astrophysicist .
March 25 –
Norman Borlaug (died
2009 ), American
agronomist ,
humanitarian and
Nobel laureate .
[15]
April 7 –
Heinz Billing , German physicist and computer scientist (died
2017 )
May 19 –
Max Perutz (died
2002 ), Austrian-born
biologist .
[16]
June 3 –
Ignacio Ponseti (died 2009),
Menorcan -born pediatric orthopedist.
June 4 –
Alec Skempton (died
2001 ), English pioneer of
soil science and engineering historian.
July 15 –
Gavin Maxwell (died
1969 ), Scottish naturalist.
[17]
July 24 –
Frances Oldham Kelsey (died
2015 ), Canadian pharmacologist.
August 13 –
Grace Bates (died
1996 ), American mathematician.
September 5 –
Nicanor Parra (died
2018 ), Chilean poet and physicist.
October 2 –
Jack Parsons (died
1952 ), American rocket engineer and occultist.
October 6 –
Thor Heyerdahl (died 2002),
Norwegian
ethnographer and explorer, leader of the
Kon-Tiki expedition.
[18]
October 14 –
Raymond Davis Jr. (died
2006 ), American
chemist and
physicist , winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics (2002)
[19]
October 21 –
Martin Gardner (died
2010 ), American writer on recreational
mathematics .
October 28
December 15 –
Anatole Abragam , French physicist (died
2011 )
[22]
December 20 –
Mary Helen Wright Greuter (died
1997 ), American historian of astronomy.
December 21 –
Frank Fenner (died
2010 ), Australian virologist and microbiologist.
[23]
December 31 –
Mary Logan Reddick (died
1966 ), African American neuroembryologist.
Deaths
January 24 – Sir
David Gill (born
1843 ), Scottish
astronomer .
March 19 –
Giuseppe Mercalli (born
1850 ), Italian
volcanologist .
March 30 –
John Henry Poynting (born
1852 ), English physicist, discovered the
Poynting–Robertson effect and developed the
Poynting vector .
April 16 –
George William Hill (born
1838 ), American astronomer.
April 26 –
Eduard Suess (born
1831 ), German
geologist and
ecologist .
May 15 –
Ida Freund (born
1863 ), Austrian-born British chemist and educator.
[24]
May 27 –
Joseph Swan (born
1828 ), English physicist.
[25]
September 13 –
Robert Hope-Jones (born
1859 ), English-born inventor of the theatre organ (suicide).
[26]
November 5 –
August Weismann (born
1834 ), German
evolutionary biologist .
[27]
November 10 –
Lydia Shackleton (born
1828 ), Irish botanical artist.
November 28 –
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (born
1824 ), German physicist.
[28]
December 24 –
John Muir (born
1838 ), Scottish American geologist and ecologist, founder of the
Sierra Club .
December 29 –
Johannes Ludwig Janson (born
1849 ), German veterinary scientist.
[29]
References
^ Loeb, J. (1914-11-06).
"Activation of the Unfertilized Egg by Ultra-Violet Rays" .
Science . 40 (1036): 680–681.
Bibcode :
1914Sci....40..680L .
doi :
10.1126/science.40.1036.680 .
PMID
17742992 .
^ Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für allgemeine Zoologie und Physiologie der Tiere (
Jena ) 35 (1914–15) pp. 1–182.
doi :
10.5962/bhl.title.11736
^ Huxley, Julian S. (1914).
"The Courtship habits of the Great Crested Grrebe (Podiceps cristatus); with an addition to the Theory of Sexual Selection" . Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . 84 (3): 491–562.
doi :
10.1111/j.1469-7998.1914.tb07052.x .
ISSN
0370-2774 .
^ "Obituary".
The Irish Times . 16 December 1933. p. 1.
^ Simmonds, M. (1914).
"Über hypophysisschwund mit todlichem ausgang" .
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift . 40 (7): 322.
doi :
10.1055/s-0029-1190185 .
^ Sinatra, Raymond (2010).
The Essence of Analgesia and Analgesics . Cambridge University Press. p. 123.
ISBN
978-0521144506 .
^ Scerri, Eric R. (2007). The Periodic Table . Oxford University Press. pp. 176–9.
ISBN
0-19-530573-6 .
^ Soddy, Frederick (1922-12-12).
"Nobel Lecture:The Origins of the Conception of Isotopes" . The Nobel Prize . Retrieved 2023-04-25 .
^ Hardy, G. H. (1914).
"Sur les zéros de la fonction ζ(s) de Riemann" . Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences . 158 . Paris: 1012–1014.
JFM
45.0716.04 . Reprinted in Borwein, Peter; Choi, Stephen; Rooney, Brendan; Weirathmueller, Andrea, eds. (2008). The Riemann Hypothesis: A Resource for the Afficionado and Virtuoso Alike . CMS Books in Mathematics. New York: Springer.
ISBN
978-0-387-72125-5 .
^ Bohr, H.; Landau, E. (1914). "Ein Satz über Dirichletsche Reihen mit Anwendung auf die ζ-Funktion und die L -Funktionen".
Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo . 37 (1): 269–272.
doi :
10.1007/BF03014823 .
S2CID
121145912 .
^
Granville, Andrew ; Martin, Greg (January 2006).
"Prime Number Races" (PDF) . American Mathematical Monthly . 113 (1): 1–33.
doi :
10.2307/27641834 .
JSTOR
27641834 .
^ Hillebrand, W. F.; Merwin, H. E.; Wright, Fred E. (January–May 1914). "Hewettite, Metahewettite and Pascoite, Hydrous Calcium Vanadates".
Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 53 (213): 31–54.
JSTOR
984129 .
^ Buckingham, E. (1914).
"On physically similar systems: illustrations of the use of dimensional equations" .
Physical Review . 4 (4). American Physical Society: 345–376.
Bibcode :
1914PhRv....4..345B .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRev.4.345 .
hdl :
10338.dmlcz/101743 .
^ Neil Schlager (2000).
Science and Its Times: 1950-present . Gale Group. p. 153.
ISBN
978-0-7876-3939-6 .
^ Peggy Saari; Stephen Allison; Marie C. Ellavich (1996).
Scientists: A-F . U-X-L. p. 105.
ISBN
978-0-7876-0960-3 .
^
Manchester Memoirs . The Society. 1999. p. 113.
^ Harold Oxbury (1985).
Great Britons: Twentieth-century Lives . Oxford University Press. p. 239.
ISBN
978-0-19-211599-7 .
^ United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oceans and Atmosphere (1972).
International Conference on Ocean Pollution: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session ... U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 42.
^ Robyn V. Young; Suzanne Sessine (2000).
World of Chemistry . Gale Group. p. 295.
ISBN
978-0-7876-3650-0 .
^ Oren Harman; Michael R. Dietrich (20 July 2018).
Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences . University of Chicago Press. p. 83.
ISBN
978-0-226-56990-1 .
^ James K. Laylin (30 October 1993).
Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, 1901-1992 . Chemical Heritage Foundation. p. 356.
ISBN
978-0-8412-2690-6 .
^
Science Chronicle . Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research. 1974. p. 67.
^
The Australian Journal of Science . Australian National Research Council. 1964. p. 254.
^ Marelene F. Rayner-Canham; Geoffrey Rayner-Canham (1998).
Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-twentieth Century . Chemical Heritage Foundation. p. 61.
ISBN
978-0-941901-27-7 .
^ Institution of Electrical Engineers (1915).
Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers . Institution of Electrical Engineers. p. 722.
^ "Death of Robert Hope-Jones". Music Trade Review . 19 September 1914.
^
United States Congressional Serial Set . U.S. Government Printing Office. 1915. p. 19.
^ Chemical Society (Great Britain) (1915).
Journal of the Chemical Society . The Society. p. 582.
^ Kast, A. (2010). "Johannes Ludwig Janson, professor of veterinary medicine in Tokyo in 1880-1902 - contribution to German-Japanese medical relations, part IV". Acta Med Hist Adriat . 8 (1): 109–18.
PMID
21073248 .