1908 in science
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The year 1908 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.
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Archeaology
- A 40,000-year-old Neandertal 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 Riemann 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.
Awards
Births
- January 15 - Edward Teller (d. 2003), physicist, inventor of the hydrogen bomb.
- January 22 - Lev Davidovich Landau (d. 1968), Russian physicist.
- February 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs (d. 1999), geologist and explorer.
- May 23 - John Bardeen (d. 1991), physicist,co-inventor of the transistor. Only physicist to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.
- September 6 - Louis Essen (d. 1997), physicist, co-developer of the first practical atomic clock
Deaths
- January 3 - Charles Augustus Young (b. 1834), astronomer.
- August 25 - Henri Becquerel (b. 1852), physicist.