The year 1908 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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January 12 – 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.
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 .
March 15 – Thure von Uexküll (died 2004 ), German pioneer of psychosomatic medicine .
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.[12]
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 .
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^ 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 . 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 .
^ "Kikunae Ikeda Sodium Glutamate" . History of Industrial Property Rights . Japan Patent Office. 2002-10-07. Retrieved 2010-11-12 .
^ 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 .
^ Buerger, Leo (1908). "Thrombo-angiitis obliterans: a study of the vascular lesions leading to presenile spontaneous gangrene" (PDF) . The American Journal of the Medical Sciences . 136 (4): 567–80. doi :10.1097/00000441-190810000-00011 . PMC 5202473 . PMID 29015658 . [permanent dead link ]
^ 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.
^ "Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian - Armenian astronomer" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .