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1923 in science

The year 1923 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

See also: 1922 in science, other events of 1923, 1924 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Aeronautics 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths

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

Deaths

• February 10 - Wilhelm Röntgen, physicist, discoverer of X-rays, Nobel laureate (born 1845)
• February 24 - Edward Morley, chemist (born 1838)
• March 8 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, physicist (born 1837)
• March 27 - James Dewar, chemist (born 1842)

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