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The year 1923 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

AERONAUTICS

Juan De La Cierva invents the Autogyro , a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

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BIRTHS

February 13 - Chuck Yeager , pilot

March 9 - Walter Kohn , physicist

April 2 - G. Spencer-Brown , mathematician

September 9 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek , virologist

November 18 - Alan Shepard (d. 1998 ), Astronaut .

DEATHS

February 10 - Wilhelm Röntgen (b. 1845 ), Physicist , discoverer of X-ray s, Nobel laureate.

February 24 - Edward Morley (b. 1838 ), Chemist .

March 8 - Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals (b. 1837 ), Physicist .

March 27 - James Dewar (b. 1842 ), Chemist .