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