1911 in science
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The year 1911 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Exploration
- December 14 - Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen and a team of four, become the first people to reach the South Pole.
[edit] Physics
- Ernest Rutherford explains the Geiger-Marsden experiment and derives the Rutherford cross section by deducing the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from scattering experiments. He proposes the Rutherford model of the atom and demonstrates that J. J. Thomson's plum pudding model was incorrect.
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers the phenonomena of superconductivity.
- Charles Wilson finishes a sophisticated cloud chamber
[edit] Technology
- January 18 - Eugene Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
- Georges Claude develops the neon lamp.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 17 - Sir Francis Galton (b. 1822), explorer and biologist.
- December 10 - Joseph Dalton Hooker (b. 1817), botanist.
