Editing 1914 in science (section)

==Biology and medicine==
* March 27 – [[Belgium|Belgian]] surgeon [[Albert Hustin]] makes the first successful non-direct [[blood transfusion]], using [[anticoagulant]]s.
* August 1 – [[Swiss National Park]] (''Parc Naziunal Svizzer'') established in the [[Engadin]] region of Switzerland.
* September 1 – [[Martha (pigeon)|Martha]], the last known [[passenger pigeon]], dies, in the [[Cincinnati Zoo]].
* November 6 – [[Jacques Loeb]] publishes a paper on artificial [[parthenogenesis]] in [[sea urchin]]s.<ref>{{cite journal|pmid=17742992|last=Loeb|first=J.|date=1914-11-06|title=Activation of the Unfertilized Egg by Ultra-Violet Rays|volume=40|issue=1036|journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]]|pages=680–681|doi=10.1126/science.40.1036.680|bibcode=1914Sci....40..680L|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1448145}}</ref>
* November 26 – [[Karl von Frisch]] publishes his first significant paper on [[Western honey bee|honey bee]] behavior, "Der Farbensinn und Formensinn der Biene".<ref>''Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für allgemeine Zoologie und Physiologie der Tiere'' ([[Jena]]) '''35''' (1914–15) pp. 1–182. {{doi|10.5962/bhl.title.11736}}</ref>
* [[Julian Huxley]] publishes ''The Courtship Habits of the Great Crested Grebe'',<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Huxley |first=Julian S. |date=1914 |title=The Courtship habits of the Great Crested Grrebe (Podiceps cristatus); with an addition to the Theory of Sexual Selection. |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31855761 |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |volume=84 |issue=3 |pages=491–562 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1914.tb07052.x |issn=0370-2774}}</ref> a key text in [[ethology]].
* [[John Joly]] develops a method of extracting [[radium]] and applying it in [[radiotherapy]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Obituary|work=[[The Irish Times]]|date=16 December 1933|page=1}}</ref>
* [[Edward Calvin Kendall]] isolates [[thyroxine]].
* [[Morris Simmonds]] first reports [[hypopituitarism]].<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1055/s-0029-1190185|last=Simmonds|first=M.|title=Über hypophysisschwund mit todlichem ausgang|year=1914|journal=[[Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift]]|volume=40|page=322|issue=7|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1429826}}</ref>
* [[Oxymorphone]], a powerful narcotic analgesic closely related to morphine, is first developed in Germany.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sinatra|first=Raymond|title=The Essence of Analgesia and Analgesics|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0521144506|page=123|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZwPIjKg0XukC&q=oxymorphone+1914+germany&pg=PA123}}</ref>