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The year 1917 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Mathematics
- Paul Ehrenfest gives a conditional principle for a three dimensional space,
Physics
- Albert Einstein introduces the idea of stimulated radiation emission
Awards
- Nobel Prize
- Physics - Charles Glover Barkla
- Chemistry - not awarded
- Medicine - not awarded
Births
- January 25 - Ilya Prigogine (d. 2003), chemist, Nobel laureate in chemistry.
- February 14 - Herbert A. Hauptman, future biophysicist
Deaths
- March 8 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin (b. 1838), founder of the Zeppelin airship company.
- March 31 - Emil Adolf von Behring (b. 1854), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901.
- July 27 - Emil Theodor Kocher (b. 1841), 1909 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- August 3 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (b. 1849), German mathematician.
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