The year 1926 in science and technology What is science? There are different theories of what science is. ... Technology (Gr. ...

Astronomy and space exploration

• March 16 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts

March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). ... Robert Goddard Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was one of the pioneers of modern rocketry. ... Auburn is a town located in Worcester County, Massachusetts. ...

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Jean Baptiste Perrin
  • Chemistry - Theodor Svedberg
  • Medicine - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
• Copley Medal: Frederick Hopkins
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Henry Fairfield Osborn

Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Jean Baptiste Perrin, generally known as Jean Perrin (Lille, September 30, 1870 – April 17, New York, 1942), was a French physicist. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. ... Theodor (The) Svedberg (August 30, 1884 – February 25, 1971) was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... Fibiger won a Nobel Prize in 1926 Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (April 23, 1867 - January 30, 1928) was a Danish scientist who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. ... The Copley Medal is a scientific award for work in any field of science, the highest award granted by the Royal Society of London. ... Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861 - 1947) was an English biochemist. ... The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London. ... Henry Fairfield Osborn (August 8, 1857 — November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist and geologist. ...

Births

• January 11 - Lev Demin (d. 1998), cosmonaut.
• April 3 - Gus Grissom (d. 1967), astronaut.

January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Lev Stepanovich Demin (Russian: Лев Степанович Дёмин; born January 11, 1926 in Moscow, died December 18, 1998 in Zvyozdny Gorodok) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 mission. ... See also: Other events of 1998 List of years in science . ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit. ... April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... Gus Grissom in his Mercury spacesuit Virgil Ivan Gus Grissom (April 3, 1926–January 27, 1967) was a U.S. Air Force pilot who became one of the first American astronauts. ... See also: Other events of 1967 List of years in science . ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit. ...

Deaths

• March 5 - Clément Ader (b. 1841), engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer.
• July 21 - Washington Roebling (b. 1837), civil engineer.
• November 26 - John Moses Browning (b. 1855), inventor.