Overview of the events of 1917 in science
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The year 1917 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Mathematics
- Paul Ehrenfest gives a conditional principle for a three-dimensional space.
Medicine
Physics
Technology
Awards
Births
- January 19 – Graham Higman (died 2008), English mathematician.
- January 25 – Ilya Prigogine (died 2003), Russian-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- February 14 – Herbert A. Hauptman (died 2011), American mathematical biophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- March 23 – Howard McKern (died 2009), Australian analytical and organic chemist.
- March 24 – John Kendrew (died 1997), English molecular biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- April 10 – Robert Burns Woodward (died 1979), American organic chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- April 18 – Brian Harold Mason (died 2009), New Zealand-born geochemist and mineralogist who was one of the pioneers in the study of meteorites.
- May 14 – W. T. Tutte (died 2002), English-born mathematician and cryptanalyst.
- June 1 – William S. Knowles (died 2012), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- June 2 – Heinz Sielmann (died 2006), German zoological filmmaker.
- June 15 – John Fenn (died 2010), American analytical chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- July 1 – Humphry Osmond (died 2004), English-born psychiatrist.
- July 15 – Walter S. Graf (died 2015), American cardiologist and pioneer of paramedic emergency medical services.
- July 22 – H. Boyd Woodruff (died 2017), American microbiologist.
- August 21 – Xu Shunshou (died 1968), Chinese aeronautical engineer.
- September 23 – Asima Chatterjee, née Mookerjee (died 2006), Indian organic chemist.
- October 2 – Christian de Duve (died 2013), English-born Belgian biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- October 8 – Rodney Porter (died 1985), English biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- November 22 – Andrew Huxley (died 2012), English winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- December 9 – James Rainwater (died 1986), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- December 16 – Arthur C. Clarke (died 2008), English-born science fiction author and inventor.
- December 20 – David Bohm (died 1992), American-born theoretical physicist, philosopher and neuropsychologist.
Deaths
References
- ^ Ishihara, S. (1917). Tests for Colour-Blindness. Handaya, Tokyo: Hongo Harukicho.
- ^ Brewerton, Emma (2016-12-12). "Ernest Rutherford". New Zealand History. Retrieved 2017-06-16.