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The year 1908 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

ARCHAEOLOGY

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

CHEMISTRY

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes liquefies Helium

PHYSICS

Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford invent the Geiger Counter

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

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.

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Gabriel Lippmann

--- Chemistry - Ernest Rutherford

--- Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov and Paul Ehrlich

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

DEATHS

January 3 - Charles Augustus Young (b. 1834 ), Astronomer .

August 25 - Henri Becquerel (b. 1852 ), Physicist .