1917 in science

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The year 1917 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Biology

• D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's On Growth and Form is published.

Mathematics

• Paul Ehrenfest gives a conditional principle for a three dimensional space.

Medicine

• Shinobu Ishihara publishes his color perception test.

Physics

• Albert Einstein introduces the idea of stimulated radiation emission.

Technology

• Alvin D. and Kelvin Keech introduce the "banjulele-banjo", an early form of the banjolele.

Awards

• Nobel Prize
  • Physics - Charles Glover Barkla
  • Chemistry - not awarded
  • Medicine - not awarded

Births

• January 19 - Graham Higman (died 2008), English mathematician.
• January 25 - Ilya Prigogine (died 2003), Russian-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• February 14 - Herbert A. Hauptman (died 2011), American mathematical biophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• March 24 - John Kendrew (died 1997), English molecular biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• July 1 - Humphry Osmond (died 2004), English-born psychiatrist.
• October 2 - Christian de Duve, English-born Belgian biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• October 8 - Rodney Porter, English biochemist (died 1985), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• November 22 - Andrew Huxley, English winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• December 16 - Arthur C. Clarke (died 2008), English-born science fiction author and inventor.

Deaths

• March 8 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin (born 1838), founder of the Zeppelin airship company.
• March 31 - Emil Adolf von Behring (born 1854), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901.
• July 27 - Emil Theodor Kocher (born 1841), 1909 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• August 3 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (born 1849), German mathematician.
• December 17 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (born 1836), English physician.