1920's Science

ASTRONOMY

• The Great Planet Jupiter - 1927
• The Planet Mars - 1925
• Pons-Winnecke Comet visitation - 1927

GEOLOGY

• Composition of Earth's Core - 1924

MEDICINE

• Life Expectancy Increase - 1921
• How Germs get used to Antiseptics - 1921

PHYSICS

• Neils Bohr (1885-1962) Danish physicist
Discovered properties of the atom; pioneer theoretician in the field of quantum mechanics. Won the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physics.
• Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) U.S. physicist
Born in Italy. Developed theory of beta ray emission in radioactivity and conducted atomic fission experiments in the 1930's

RADIO

• Radio Interference - 1924

TECHNOLOGY

• Ford and Edison on Future Inventions - 1929
• Early Days of Television
• First live TV broadcast from a plane - 1929

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