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The year 1911 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

1 Exploration

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

2 Physics

• 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 OnnesHeike Kamerlingh Onnes ( September 21, 1853 February 21, 1926) was a Dutch physicist. He won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for (in the words of the committee) "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to discovers superconductivitySuperconductivity is a phenomenon occurring in certain materials at low temperatures, characterised by the complete absence of electrical resistance and the damping of the interior magnetic field (the Meissner effect. In conventional superconductors, supe.
• Charles Wilson finishes a sophisticated cloud chamberThe cloud chamber also known as the Wilson chamber, is used for detecting particles of ionizing radiation. Invention Charles Thomson Rees Wilson ( 1869- 1959), a Scottish physicist, is credited with inventing the cloud chamber in 1900. In Wilson's origina

3 Technology

• January 18January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 347 days remaining (348 in leap years) Events 300-1899 350 General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans, proclaims himself Emperor. 474 Leo II becomes briefly Byzantine emper - Eugene ElyEugene Burton Ely ( October 21, 1886 October 19, 1911) was an aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft take off and landing. Ely was born in Davenport, Iowa and raised near Williamsburg, Iowa. He attended Iowa State University, graduat lands on the deck of the USS PennsylvaniaThe second USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4 also referred to "Armored Cruiser No. 4", and later renamed Pittsburgh and numbered CA-4 was a United States Navy armored cruiser, the lead ship of her class. She was laid down 7 August 1901 by William Cramp and Sons, Ph anchored in San Francisco BayThe San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary in which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. Technically, the Sacrame, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
• Georges Claude develops the neon lamp.