Overview of the events of 1908 in science
The year 1908 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Archaeology [ edit ] Astronomy [ edit ] Chemistry [ edit ] Climatology [ edit ] This is the coldest recorded year since 1880, according to NASA reports.[7] Earth sciences [ edit ] Genetics [ edit ] History of science [ edit ] Mathematics [ edit ] Paleontology [ edit ] Physics [ edit ] Physiology and medicine [ edit ] Technology [ edit ] 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.[16] October 10 – Min Chueh Chang (died 1991 ), Chinese -born embryologist . October 21 – Elsie Widdowson (died 2000 ), English nutritionist . November 4 – Józef Rotblat (died 2005 ), Polish-born physicist. December 24 – Noël Poynter (died 1979 ), English medical historian . References [ edit ] ^ 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. ^ "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 .