See also: 1917 in science, other events of 1918, 1919 in science and the list of years in science.
Physics J. Lense and Hans Thirring find the gravitomagnetic precession of gyroscopes in the equations of general relativity Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordström 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