1917 in science

See also: 1916 in science, other events of 1917, 1918 in science and the list of years in science.

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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