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The year 1911 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Exploration 2 Physics 3 Technology 4 Awards 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Exploration

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

[edit] 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. He proposes the Rutherford model of the atom and demonstrates that J. J. Thomson's plum pudding model was incorrect.
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers the phenonomena of superconductivity.
• Charles Wilson finishes a sophisticated cloud chamber

[edit] 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.

[edit] Awards

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

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

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