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The year 1934 in Science and Technology .

ASTRONOMY

Richard Tolman shows that Black-body radiation in an expanding universe cools but remains thermal.

Georges Lemaître interprets the cosmological constant as due to a Vacuum Energy with an unusual perfect fluid Equation Of State .

CHEMISTRY

The Mulliken Scale of Chemical Element Electronegativity is developed by Robert S. Mulliken .

PHYSICS

Sonoluminescence is discovered at the University Of Cologne .

Ernest Lawrence and Stan Livingston invent the Cyclotron .

TECHNOLOGY

The 135 Film cartridge was introduced in Germany and the United States with the Kodak Retina camera, making 35mm film easy to use.

AWARDS

Nobel Prize

--- Physics : not awarded

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---, George Richards Minot , William Parry Murphy

BIRTHS

March 9 - Yuri Gagarin (d. 1968 ), Cosmonaut , the first man in Space .

March 31 - Carlo Rubbia , Physicist , Nobel Laurette In Physics

November 9 - Carl Sagan (d. 1996 ), Astronomer .

DEATHS

January 29 - Fritz Haber (b. 1868 ), Chemist .

July 4 - Marie Curie (b. 1867 ), Physicist .