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1908 in science

The year 1908 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

See also: 1907 in science, other events of 1908, 1909 in science, and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Archeaology 2 Chemistry 3 Physics 4 Mathematics 5 Technology 6 Awards 7 Births 8 Deaths

Archeaology

• A 40,000-year-old Neanderthal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France.

Chemistry

• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes liquefies helium

Physics

• Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford invent the Geiger counter

Mathematics

• Ernst Zermelo axiomizes set theory, thus avoiding Cantor's contradictions
• Josip Plemelj solves the Riemann problem about the existence of a differential equation with a given monodromic group and uses Sokhotsky-Plemelj formulae

Technology

• A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
• Henry Ford develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing and produces the first Model T automobile.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Gabriel Lippmann
  • Chemistry - Ernest Rutherford
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov and Paul Ehrlich

Births

• January 15 - Edward Teller, physicist
• February 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, geologist/explorer.
• May 23 - John Bardeen, physicist
• September 6 - Louis Essen, physicist, co-developer of the first practical atomic clock

Deaths

• August 25 - Henri Becquerel, physicist

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