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1918 in science

The year 1918 CE in science and technology consisted of several events, some of which are listed below.

See also: 1917 in science, other events of 1918, 1919 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Physics 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Nobel Prizes

Physics

• J. Lense and Hans Thirring find the gravitomagnetic precession of gyroscopes in the equations of general relativity
• Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordström solve the Einstein-Maxwell field equations for charged spherically-symmetric non-rotating systems
• Friedrich Kottler gets Schwarzschild solution without Einstein vacuum field equations

Births

• March 16 - Frederick Reines, future physicist
• May 11 - Richard Feynman, future physicist
• July 15 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, future physicist
• August 13 - Frederick Sanger, future molecular biologist

Deaths

• January 6 - Georg Cantor, mathematician

Nobel Prizes

• Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
• Fritz Haber is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

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