The year 1924 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
November 23 – Edwin Hubble announces his discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe.[1]
^In The New York Times. Sharov, Aleksandr Sergeevich; Novikov, Igor Dmitrievich (1993). Edwin Hubble, the discoverer of the big bang universe. Cambridge University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-521-41617-7. Retrieved 2011-12-31. Formally published December 30 and presented as a paper at the January 1, 1925 meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Bartusiak, Marcia (2010). The Day We Found the Universe. Random House. pp. x–xi. ISBN 9780307276605.
^"Artificial Wombs Are Coming, but the Controversy Is Already Here". Motherboard. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
^James, David N. (1987). "Ectogenesis: A Reply to Singer and Wells". Bioethics. 1 (1): 80–99. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.1987.tb00006.x. PMID 11649763.
^Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2011). "Tetanus" (PDF). Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases. Washington, D.C.: Public Health Foundation. ISBN 978-0-01-706609-1. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
^Russell, Ben (2014). James Watt: making the world anew. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-78023-375-8.
^Banach, Stefan; Tarski, Alfred (1924). "Sur la décomposition des ensembles de points en parties respectivement congruentes" (PDF). Fundamenta Mathematicae. 6: 244–277. doi:10.4064/fm-6-1-244-277.
^Gamow, George (1947). One Two Three ... Infinity. New York: Viking Press. p. 17.
^Haas, L. F. (2003). "Hans Berger (1873-1941), Richard Caton (1842-1926) and electroencephalography". Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 74 (1): 9. doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.1.9. PMC 1738204. PMID 12486257.
^"Band-Aid Brand: A History of Innovation". September 28, 2023.
^Dart, Raymond A. (February 1925). "Australopithecus africanus: The Man-Ape of South Africa" (PDF). Nature. 115 (2884): 195–99. Bibcode:1925Natur.115..195D. doi:10.1038/115195a0.
^Stoner, E. C. (1924). "The distribution of electrons among atomic levels". Philosophical Magazine. 6th ser. 48 (286): 719–736. doi:10.1080/14786442408634535.
^"Louis de Broglie: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929". Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922–1941. Elsevier. 1965. Retrieved 2007-02-28.
^"Landmark Dates". British TV History. Archived from the original on 1 November 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
^L. Vaillard; Agathe Floderer; Alexandre Wauthier. "Vallin Émile Arthur". cths.fr (in French). Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 11 February 2021.