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1914 in science and technology consisted of many events. Some of them are below.

Astronomy and space exploration

• Sinope, the outermost known moon of Jupiter was discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Lick Observatory.
• A 76 cm refracting telescope is built at Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. It is the fifth largest refractor in the world.
• Robert Goddard begins building rockets.
• Walter Sydney Adams determines an incredibly high density for Sirius B.

• James Franck and Gustav Hertz observe atomic excitation
• Ernest Rutherford suggests that the positively charged atomic nucleus contains protons

• W. H. Carrier patents design of air conditioner
• Kodak introduced the Autographic system.

• Max von Laue is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
• Theodore William Richards is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
• Robert Bárány is awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine

• February 17 - Armin Kutzsche, future medical researcher
• March 8 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich († 1987), astrophysicist
• May 19 - Max Perutz, future biologist
• October 6 - Thor Heyerdahl († 2002), explorer, led the Kon-Tiki expedition.
• October 21 - Martin Gardner, future writer on mathematics and games
• October 28 - Jonas Salk, future medical researcher

• March 30 - John Henry Poynting, physicist, discovered the Poynting-Robertson effect and developed the Poynting vector.
• December 24 - John Muir, geologist, ecologist, founder of the Sierra Club.

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