1911 in science

See also: 1910 in science, other events of 1911, 1912 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Exploration 2 Physics 3 Technology 4 Nobel Prizes

Exploration

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

• 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.
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
• Charles Wilson finishes a sophisticated cloud chamber

• Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship
• Georges Claude develops the neon lamp.

• Wilhelm Wien is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
• Allvar Gullstrand is awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine