1923 in science
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The year 1923 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Aeronautics
- Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor
[edit] Expeditions
[edit] Awards
- Nobel Prizes
- Copley Medal: Horace Lamb
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Whitaker
[edit] Births
- February 13 - Chuck Yeager, pilot
- March 9 - Walter Kohn, physicist
- April 2 - G. Spencer-Brown, mathematician
- September 9 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, virologist
- November 18 - Alan Shepard (d. 1998), astronaut.
[edit] Deaths
- February 10 - Wilhelm Röntgen (b. 1845), physicist, discoverer of X-rays, Nobel laureate.
- February 24 - Edward Morley (b. 1838), chemist.
- March 8 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals (b. 1837), physicist.
- March 27 - James Dewar (b.1842), chemist.
