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

Contents 1 Astronomy and space exploration 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Astronomy and space exploration

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Births

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

[edit] 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.