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1934 in science
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The year 1934 in science and technology.
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Astronomy
- Richard Tolman shows that black-body radiation in an expanding universe cools but remains thermal.
- Georges Lemaître interprets the cosmological constant as due to a vacuum energy with an unusual perfect fluid equation of state.
Chemistry
- The Mulliken scale of chemical element electronegativity is developed by Robert S. Mulliken.
Physics
- Sonoluminescence is discovered at the University of Cologne.
- Ernest Lawrence and Stan Livingston invent the cyclotron.
Technology
- The 135 film cartridge was introduced, making 35mm film easy to use.
Awards
Births
- March 9 - Yuri Gagarin (d. 1968), cosmonaut, the first man in space.
- March 31 - Carlo Rubbia, physicist, Nobel laurette in Physics
- November 9 - Carl Sagan (d. 1996), astronomer.
Deaths
- January 29 - Fritz Haber (b. 1868), chemist.
- July 4 - Marie Curie (b. 1867), physicist.
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