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The year 1926 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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

Waldo Semon and the B.F. Goodrich Company develop a method of plasticizing polyvinyl chloride, giving it commercial potential.

Vladimir Vernadsky popularises the concept of the biosphere in a book (in Russian) of this title.

February - Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda publish the first description of the Yagi-Uda antenna.
July
- Alan A. Griffith publishes An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design, proposing an airfoil shape for turbine blades.^[4]^[5]
- Carl Zeiss, Jena, open a planetarium housed in a geodesic dome designed by Walther Bauersfeld.^[6]
November 23 - The aerosol spray can is patented by Erik Rotheim, a Norwegian chemical engineer.^[7]
Ulster-born engineer Harry Ferguson is granted a British patent for his 'Duplex' hitch linking tractor and plough.

January 11 - Lev Demin (died 1998), cosmonaut.
January 29 - Abdus Salam (died 1996), theoretical physicist.
April 3 - Gus Grissom (died 1967), astronaut.
July 27 - W. David Kingery (died 2000), materials scientist specializing in ceramic materials.
October 2 - Michio Suzuki (died 1998)), mathematician.
October 12 - Ruth L. Kirschstein (died 2009), American pathologist and science administrator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
October 31 - Narinder Singh Kapany, physicist.

^ Borůvka, Otakar (1926). "O jistém problému minimálním [About a certain minimal problem]". Práce mor. přírodověd. spol. v Brně III (in Czech and German summary). 3: 37–58.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^ Borůvka, Otakar (1926). "Příspěvek k řešení otázky ekonomické stavby elektrovodních sítí [Contribution to the solution of a problem of economical construction of electrical networks]". Elektronický Obzor (in Czech). 15: 153–4.
^ Nešetřil, Jaroslav; Milková, Eva; Nešetřilová, Helena (2001). "Otakar Borůvka on minimum spanning tree problem: translation of both the 1926 papers, comments, history". Discrete Mathematics. 233 (1–3): 3–36. doi:10.1016/S0012-365X(00)00224-7. MR 1825599.
^ Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Report no. H 1111.
^ Rubbra, A. A. (1964). "Alan Arnold Griffith. 1893-1963". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 10: 117–136. JSTOR 769315.
^ Photographs of the Zeiss Optical Company's first geodesic dome.
^ Bellis, Mary. "The History of Aerosol Spray Cans". About.com. Retrieved 2011-06-27.

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 * April 3 - [[Gus Grissom]] (died [[1967 in science|1967]]), [[astronaut]].
 * July 27 - [[W. David Kingery]] (died [[2000 in science|2000]]), [[materials scientist]] specializing in [[ceramic materials]].
-* October 2 - [[Michio Suzuki]] (died 1998), [[mathematician]].
+* October 2 - [[Michio Suzuki]] (died [[1998 in science|1998]])), [[mathematician]].
+* October 12 - [[Ruth L. Kirschstein]] (died [[2009 in science|2009]]), [[United States|American]] [[pathologist]] and science administrator at the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH).
 * October 31 - [[Narinder Singh Kapany]], physicist.