1898 in science
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The year 1898 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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Chemistry
- Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers discover Neon, Krypton, Xenon and Argon
Awards
- Copley Medal: William Huggins
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: Ferdinand Zirkel
Births
- March 3 - Emil Artin (d. 1962), mathematician.
- June 26 - Willy Messerschmitt (d. 1978), German aircraft engineer.
- July 29 - I.I. Rabi (d. 1988), American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for invention of the atomic beam magnetic resonance method of measuring magnetic properties of atoms and molecules.
- September 10 - Waldo Semon (d. 1999), American inventor.
Deaths
- March 15 - Henry Bessemer (b. 1813), inventor of the Bessemer process, which revolutionized the steel industry.
- September 14 - William Seward Burroughs (b. 1855), inventor of the calculator.