The year 1911 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below. What is science? There are different theories of what science is. ... Technology (Gr. ...

Exploration

• December 14 - Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen and a team of four, become the first people to reach the South Pole.

December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Roald Amundsen Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (July 16, 1872–June 18?, 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. ... Location of the South Pole in the Antarctic continent. ...

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.
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discloses his research on the phenonomena of superconductivity.
• Charles Wilson finishes a sophisticated cloud chamber

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS (August 30, 1871 - October 19, 1937), called father of nuclear physics, pioneered the orbital theory of the atom notably in his discovery of rutherford scattering off the nucleus with his gold foil experiment. ... Rutherford scattering is a phenomenon that was observed by Ernest Rutherford in 1911 that led to the development of the orbital theory of the atom. ... Cross section may refer to the following In geometry, Cross section is the intersection of a 3-dimensional body with a plane. ... Properties For alternative meanings see atom (disambiguation). ... Rutherford scattering is a phenomenon that was observed by Ernest Rutherford in 1911 that led to the development of the orbital theory of the atom. ... Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (September 21, 1853 – February 21, 1926) was a Dutch physicist. ... A magnet levatating above a high-temperature superconductor with boiling liquid nitrogen underneath demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (February 14, 1869 - November 15, 1959) was a Scottish physicist. ... The cloud chamber, also known as the Wilson chamber, is used for detecting particles of ionizing radiation. ...

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.

January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Eugene Burton Ely (October 21, 1886 - October 19, 1911) was an aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft take off and landing. ... The second USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4), also referred to Armored Cruiser No. ... San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary in which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ... Landing is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal or aircraft returns to the ground. ... A neon lamp is a gas discharge lamp containing neon gas at low pressure. ...

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Wilhelm Wien
  • Chemistry - Maria Skłodowska-Curie
  • Medicine - Allvar Gullstrand

Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Wilhelm Wien Wilhelm Wien (January 13, 1864 - August 30, 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to compose Wiens Law, which relates the maximum emission of a blackbody to its temperature. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. ... . Marie Curie, one of the few people to win two Nobel Prizes in different fields, was one of the most significant researchers of radiation and its effects as a pioneer of radiology. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... Allvar Gullstrand Allvar Gullstrand (born June 5, 1862 in Landskrona - died July 28, 1930 in Stockholm) was a Swedish ophthalmologist. ...

Births

Deaths

• January 17 - Sir Francis Galton (b. 1822), explorer and biologist.
• December 10 - Joseph Dalton Hooker (b. 1817), botanist.