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The year 1914 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Irène Joliot-Curie</span> French scientist (1897–1956)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Walther Nernst</span> German physicist and physical chemist (1864–1941)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gerhard Herzberg</span> German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist (1904–1999)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Theodore William Richards</span> American chemist and Nobel laureate (1868–1928)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Martin Karplus</span> Austrian-born American theoretical chemist

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Ada Florence Remfry Hitchins was the principal research assistant of British chemist Frederick Soddy, who won the Nobel prize in 1921 for work on radioactive elements and the theory of isotopes. Hitchins isolated samples from uranium ores, taking precise and accurate measurements of atomic mass that provided the first experimental evidence for the existence of different isotopes. She also helped to discover the element protactinium, which Dmitri Mendeleev had predicted should occur in the periodic table between uranium and thorium.

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