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The year 1926 in Science and Technology :

ASTRONOMY AND SPACE EXPLORATION

March 16 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Jean Baptiste Perrin

--- Chemistry - Theodor Svedberg

--- Medicine - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger

BIRTHS

January 11 - Lev Demin (d. 1998 ), Cosmonaut .

April 3 - Gus Grissom (d. 1967 ), Astronaut .

DEATHS

March 5 - Clément Ader (b. 1841 ), Engineer and Inventor , Airplane pioneer.

July 21 - Washington Roebling (b. 1837 ), Civil Engineer .

November 26 - John Moses Browning (b. 1855 ), inventor.