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The year 1908 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Archaeology 2 Chemistry 3 Physics 4 Mathematics 5 Technology 6 Awards 7 Births 8 Deaths

[edit] Archaeology

• A 40,000-year-old Neandertal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France.

[edit] Chemistry

• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes liquefies helium.

[edit] Physics

• Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford invent the Geiger counter.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Gabriel Lippmann
  • Chemistry - Ernest Rutherford
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov and Paul Ehrlich

[edit] 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.

[edit] Deaths

• January 3 - Charles Augustus Young (b. 1834), astronomer.
• August 25 - Henri Becquerel (b. 1852), physicist.