1908 in science (original) (raw)
1908 in science and technology
See also: 1907 in science, other events of 1908, 1909 in science and the list of years in science.
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 Riemman 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.
Nobel Prizes
- Gabriel Lippmann is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
- Ernest Rutherford is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov and Paul Ehrlich are awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine
Births
- January 15 - Edward Teller, future physicist
- February 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, future geologist/explorer.
- May 23 - John Bardeen, future physicist
Deaths
- August 25 - Henri Becquerel, physicist