Overview of the events of 1908 in science
The year 1908 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Archaeology
Astronomy
Chemistry
Climatology
This is the coldest recorded year since 1880, according to NASA reports.[ 7]
Earth sciences
Genetics
History of science
Mathematics
Paleontology
Physics
Physiology and medicine
Technology
Awards
Births
January 15 – Edward Teller (died 2003 ), Hungarian -born physicist , inventor of the hydrogen bomb .
January 18 – Jacob Bronowski (died 1974 ), Polish -born scientific polymath .
January 22 – Lev Davidovich Landau (died 1968 ), Russian physicist .
February 11 – Vivian Fuchs (died 1999 ), English geologist and explorer .
February 25 – Mary Locke Petermann (died 1975 ), American cellular biochemist .
March 15 – Thure von Uexküll (died 2004 ), German pioneer of psychosomatic medicine .
May 14 – Nicholas Kurti , born Kürti Miklós (died 1998 ), Hungarian-born physicist.
May 23 – John Bardeen (died 1991 ), American physicist, co-inventor of the transistor , only physicist to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.
September 2 – Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (died 1983 ), Russian astronomer and astrophysicist .
September 6 – Louis Essen (died 1997 ), English physicist, co-developer of the first practical atomic clock .
September 18 – Victor Ambartsumian (died 1996 ), Soviet Armenian theoretical astrophysicist.[ 17]
October 10 – Min Chueh Chang (died 1991 ), Chinese -born embryologist .
October 21 – Elsie Widdowson (died 2000 ), English nutritionist .
November 4 – Joseph Rotblat (died 2005 ), Polish-born physicist.
December 24 – Noël Poynter (died 1979 ), English medical historian .
Deaths
References
^ Stephenson, F. R.; Morrison, L. V.; Whitrow, G. J. (1984). "Long-Term Changes in the Rotation of the Earth: 700 B.C. to A.D. 1980" (PDF) . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A . 313 (1524): 47–70. Bibcode :1984RSPTA.313...47S . doi :10.1098/rsta.1984.0082 . ISSN 0080-4614 . S2CID 120566848 . Retrieved 2012-05-24 .
^ Pasechnik, I. P. (1986). "Refinement of the moment of explosion of the Tunguska meteorite from the seismic data". Cosmic Matter and the Earth (in Russian). Novosibirsk: Nauka. p. 66.
^ Farinella, Paolo; Foschini, L.; Froeschlé, Christiane; Gonczi, R.; Jopek, T. J.; Longo, G.; Michel, Patrick (2001). "Probable asteroidal origin of the Tunguska Cosmic Body" (PDF) . Astronomy and Astrophysics . 377 (3): 1081–1097. Bibcode :2001A&A...377.1081F . doi :10.1051/0004-6361:20011054 . Retrieved 2011-08-23 .
^ Trayner, Chris (1994). "Perplexities of the Tunguska Meteorite". The Observatory . 114 : 227–231. Bibcode :1994Obs...114..227T .
^ Hale, G. E. (1908). "On the Probable Existence of a Magnetic Field in Sun-Spots" . The Astrophysical Journal . 28 : 315. Bibcode :1908ApJ....28..315H . doi :10.1086/141602 .
^ "Kikunae Ikeda Sodium Glutamate" . History of Industrial Property Rights . Japan Patent Office. 2002-10-07. Archived from the original on 2007-10-28. Retrieved 2010-11-12 .
^ "Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP v4)" . data.giss.nasa.gov . Archived from the original on May 17, 2019. Retrieved January 23, 2016 .
^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know . London: Quercus. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8 .
^ Student (March 1908). "The probable error of a mean" (PDF) . Biometrika . 6 (1): 1–25. doi :10.1093/biomet/6.1.1 . hdl :10338.dmlcz/143545 . Retrieved 2011-10-08 .
^ Mie, Gustav (1908). "Beiträge zur Optik trüber Medien, speziell kolloidaler Metallösungen" . Annalen der Physik . 25 (3): 377–445. Bibcode :1908AnP...330..377M . doi :10.1002/andp.19083300302 . English translation , American translation
^ Kuhn, R. (2004). "Eugen Bleuler's concepts of psychopathology". History of Psychiatry . 15 (59 Pt 3): 361–6. doi :10.1177/0957154X04044603 . PMID 15386868 . S2CID 5317716 .
^ Buerger, Leo (1908). "Thrombo-angiitis obliterans: a study of the vascular lesions leading to presenile spontaneous gangrene" . The American Journal of the Medical Sciences . 136 (4): 567–80. doi :10.1097/00000441-190810000-00011 . PMC 5202473 . PMID 29015658 .
^ Corner, George W. (1967). "Warren Harmon Lewis, June 17, 1870 – July 3, 1964" (PDF) . Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (39): 323–358.
^ "Melitta Bentz, mother of filter coffee: inventor and entrepreneur" . German Patent and Trade Mark Office . Retrieved 2022-04-06 .
^ "Model T Facts" (Press release). US: Ford. Archived from the original on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2013-04-23 .
^ Lee W. Newman, Marking Pen, U.S. Patent 946,149 . Granted January 11, 1910.
^ "Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian – Armenian astronomer" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .