1918 in science
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The year 1918 in science and technology consisted of several events, some of which are listed below.
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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
Nobel Prizes
- Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
- Fritz Haber is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Births
- March 16 - Frederick Reines (d. 1998), physicist.
- May 11 - Richard Feynman (d. 1988), American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics.
- July 15 - Bertram N. Brockhouse (d. 2003), physicist.
- August 13 - Frederick Sanger, molecular biologist.
Deaths
- January 6 - Georg Cantor (b. 1845), mathematician.
- January 26 - Ewald Hering (b. 1834), physiologist.
- April 20 - Karl Ferdinand Braun (b. 1850), physicist.
- May 31 - Alexander Mitscherlich (b. 1836), chemist.
- September 7 - Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (b. 1832), mathematician.