1914 in science

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

See also: 1913 in science, other events of 1914, 1915 in science and the list of years in science.

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.

Physics

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

Technology

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

Nobel Prizes

• 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

Births

• February 17 - Armin Kutzsche, future medical researcher
• May 19 - Max Perutz, future biologist
• October 21 - Martin Gardner, future writer on mathematics and games
• October 28 - Jonas Salk, future medical researcher
• Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, astrophysicist

Deaths

• 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.