The year 1931 in science and technology had many significant events, including those listed below.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Chemistry - Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius
  • Medicine - Otto Heinrich Warburg

Births

• October 12 - Ole-Johan Dahl (d. 2002), computer scientist, invented concepts in object-oriented programming.

Deaths

• February 11 - Charles Algernon Parsons (b. 1854), British inventor of the steam turbine.
• October 18 - Thomas Edison (b. 1847), inventor.