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1918 in science
The year 1918 CE in
science
and
technology
consisted of several events, some of which are listed below.
See also:
1917 in science
,
other events of 1918
,
1919 in science
and the
list of years in science
.
Table of contents
1 Physics
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes
Physics
J. Lense and Hans Thirring find the gravitomagnetic precession of
gyroscopes
in the equations of general relativity
Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordstr�m solve the Einstein-Maxwell field equations for charged spherically-symmetric non-rotating systems
Friedrich Kottler gets Schwarzschild solution without Einstein vacuum field equations
Births
March 16
-
Frederick Reines
, future physicist
May 11
-
Richard Feynman
, future physicist
July 15
-
Bertram N. Brockhouse
, future physicist
August 13
-
Frederick Sanger
, future
molecular biologist
Deaths
January 6
-
Georg Cantor
, mathematician
Nobel Prizes
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
is awarded the
Nobel Prize for Physics
Fritz Haber
is awarded the
Nobel Prize for Chemistry