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The year '''1917 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events, listed below.

==Biology==
* September 3 – French-Canadian microbiologist [[Félix d'Hérelle]], working at the [[Pasteur Institute]] in Paris, announces his discovery of a [[bacteriophage]].<ref>{{cite journal |author = d'Hérelle, F.|year=1917 |title= Sur un microbe invisible antagoniste des bacilles dysentériques |journal= Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris |volume= 165 |pages=373–5 |url= http://202.114.65.51/fzjx/wsw/wswfzjs/pdf/1917p157.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110511183504/http://202.114.65.51/fzjx/wsw/wswfzjs/pdf/1917p157.pdf |archive-date=2011-05-11|access-date=2010-09-05|url-status = live}}</ref>
* [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]]'s ''[[On Growth and Form]]'' is published.

==Mathematics==
* [[Paul Ehrenfest]] gives a conditional principle for a three-dimensional space.

==Medicine==
* [[Shinobu Ishihara]] publishes his [[color perception test]].<ref>{{cite book|first=S.|last=Ishihara|title=Tests for Colour-Blindness|location=Handaya, Tokyo|publisher=Hongo Harukicho|year=1917}}</ref>
* [[Julius Wagner-Jauregg]] discovers [[malaria]]l [[pyrotherapy]] for [[general paresis of the insane]].

==Physics==
* [[Albert Einstein]] introduces the idea of [[Laser|stimulated radiation emission]].
* [[Nuclear fission]]: [[Ernest Rutherford]] (at the [[Victoria University of Manchester]]) achieves [[nuclear transmutation]] of nitrogen into oxygen, using alpha particles directed at nitrogen <sup>14</sup>N + α → <sup>17</sup>O + p, the first observation of a [[nuclear reaction]], in which he also discovers and names the [[proton]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/people/ernest-rutherford|title=Ernest Rutherford|work=New Zealand History|first=Emma|last=Brewerton|date=2016-12-12|accessdate=2017-06-16}}</ref>

==Technology==
* September 13 – Release in the United States of the first film made in [[Technicolor]] System 1, a two-color process, ''[[The Gulf Between (1917 film)|The Gulf Between]]''.
* Alvin D. and [[Kelvin Keech]] introduce the "banjulele-banjo", an early form of the [[banjolele]].
* [[Gilbert Vernam]] jointly reinvents the [[one-time pad]] [[encryption]] system.

==Awards==
* [[Nobel Prize]]
** [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Charles Glover Barkla]] (announced 12 November 1918; presented 1 June 1920)
** [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – not awarded
** [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] – not awarded

==Births==
* January 19 – [[Graham Higman]] (died [[2008 in science|2008]]), English [[mathematician]].
* January 25 – [[Ilya Prigogine]] (died [[2003 in science|2003]]), Russian-born winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].
* February 14 – [[Herbert A. Hauptman]] (died [[2011 in science|2011]]), American mathematical [[biophysicist]], winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
* March 23 – [[Howard McKern]] (died [[2009 in science|2009]]), Australian [[Analytical chemistry|analytical]] and [[organic chemist]].
* March 24 – [[John Kendrew]] (died [[1997 in science|1997]]), English [[molecular biologist]], winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
* April 10 – [[Robert Burns Woodward]] (died [[1979 in science|1979]]), American organic chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
* April 18 – [[Brian Harold Mason]] (died [[2009 in science|2009]]), New Zealand-born [[geochemist]] and [[mineralogist]] who was one of the pioneers in the study of [[meteorites]].
* May 14 – [[W. T. Tutte]] (died [[2002 in science|2002]]), English-born mathematician and [[cryptanalyst]].
* June 1 – [[William S. Knowles]] (died [[2012 in science|2012]]), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
* June 2 – [[Heinz Sielmann]] (died [[2006 in science|2006]]), German zoological filmmaker.
* June 15 – [[John Fenn (chemist)|John Fenn]] (died [[2010 in science|2010]]), American analytical chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
* July 1 – [[Humphry Osmond]] (died [[2004 in science|2004]]), English-born [[psychiatrist]].
* July 15 – [[Walter S. Graf]] (died [[2015 in science|2015]]), American [[cardiologist]] and pioneer of [[Paramedics in the United States|paramedic]] [[emergency medical services]].
* July 22 – [[H. Boyd Woodruff]] (died [[2017 in science|2017]]), American [[microbiologist]].
* August 21 – [[Xu Shunshou]] (died [[1968 in science|1968]]), Chinese [[aeronautical engineer]].
* September 23 – [[Asima Chatterjee]], née Mookerjee (died [[2006 in science|2006]]), [[Indian people|Indian]] [[organic chemist]].
* October 2 – [[Christian de Duve]] (died [[2013 in science|2013]]), English-born [[Belgians|Belgian]] [[biologist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* October 8 – [[Rodney Robert Porter|Rodney Porter]] (died [[1985 in science|1985]]), English [[biochemist]], winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
* November 22 – [[Andrew Huxley]] (died [[2012 in science|2012]]), English winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
* December 9 – [[James Rainwater]] (died [[1986 in the United States|1986]]), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
* December 16 – [[Arthur C. Clarke]] (died [[2008 in science|2008]]), English-born science fiction author and inventor.
* December 20 – [[David Bohm]] (died [[1992 in science|1992]]), American-born theoretical physicist, philosopher and neuropsychologist.

==Deaths==
* February 11 – [[Laura Forster]] (born [[1858 in science|1858]]), [[Australians|Australian]] [[physician]], died on war service.
* March 8 – [[Ferdinand von Zeppelin]] (born [[1838 in science|1838]]), German founder of the [[Zeppelin]] [[airship]] company.
* March 31 – [[Emil von Behring]] (born [[1854 in science|1854]]), German physiologist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in [[1901 in science|1901]].
* July 27 – [[Emil Theodor Kocher]] (born [[1841 in science|1841]]), [[Swiss people|Swiss]] surgeon, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in [[1909 in science|1909]].
* August 3 – [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] (born [[1849 in science|1849]]), German [[mathematician]].
* December 17 – [[Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]] (born [[1836 in science|1836]]), English physician.

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