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1917 in science
1917 in science and technology
See also: 1916 in science, other events of 1917, 1918 in science and the list of years in science.
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Mathematics
- Paul Ehrenfest gives conditional principle a three dimensional space,
Physics
- Albert Einstein introduces the idea of stimulated radiation emission
Births
- January 25 - Ilya Prigogine, future chemist
- February 14 - Herbert A. Hauptman , future biophysicist
Deaths
- March 31 - Emil Adolf von Behring, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901
- August 3 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician
Nobel Prizes
- Charles Glover Barkla is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
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