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The year 1918 in Science and Technology consisted of several events, some of which are listed below.

ASTRONOMY

Kiyotsugu Hirayama identifies several groups of Main Belt Asteroids , now known as Hirayama Families .

Harlow Shapley demonstrates that Globular Cluster s are arranged in an spheroid or halo whose center is not the Earth , but the center of the Galaxy .

Max Wolf discovers the Star Wolf 359 .

Heber Curtis discovers a Relativistic Jet of matter emerging from Elliptical Galaxy M87 .

BIOLOGY

Ronald Fisher puts forward a Genetic model that shows that continuous variation could be the result of Mendelian Inheritance in his paper " The Correlation Between Relatives On The Supposition Of Mendelian Inheritance ".

PHYSICS

J. Lense and Hans Thirring find the gravitomagnetic precession of Gyroscope s in the equations of General Relativity .

Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordström solve the Einstein and Maxwell Field Equations for charged spherically-symmetric non-rotating systems.

Friedrich Kottler gets Schwarzschild solution without Einstein vacuum field equations.

TECHNOLOGY

Edwin Armstrong invents the Superheterodyne Receiver .

Theodore Von Karman and Asbóth Oszkár build the first co-axial Helicopter .

Anton Fokker invents the Interrupter Gear .

A. M. Nicolson invents the Radio Crystal Oscillator

Charles Strite invents the Pop-up Toaster .

Edward Hugh Hebern patents the Hebern Rotor Machine .

NOBEL PRIZES

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck is awarded the Nobel Prize For Physics

Fritz Haber is awarded the Nobel Prize For Chemistry

BIRTHS

January 27 - Antonín Mrkos (d. 1996 ), Astronomer .

March 16 - Frederick Reines (d. 1998 ), Physicist .

April 4 - Joseph Ashbrook (d. 1980 ), Astronomer .

April 25 - Gérard De Vaucouleurs (d. 1995 ), Astronomer .

May 11 - Richard Feynman (d. 1988 ), Physicist , Nobel laureate.

July 15 - Bertram N. Brockhouse (d. 2003 ), Physicist .

August 13 - Frederick Sanger , Molecular Biologist .

September 27 - Martin Ryle (d. 1984 ), Astronomer .

November 19 - Hendrik C. Van De Hulst (d. 2000 ), Astronomer .

December 25 - Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova , Astronomer .

DEATHS

January 6 - Georg Cantor (b. 1845 ), Mathematician .

January 26 - Ewald Hering (b. 1834 ), Physiologist .

January 31 - Ivan Pulyui (b. 1845 ), Physicist .

April 20 - Karl Ferdinand Braun (b. 1850 ), Physicist .

May 31 - Alexander Mitscherlich (b. 1836 ), Chemist .

June 27 - George Mary Searle (b. 1839 ), Astronomer .

September 7 - Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (b. 1832 ), Mathematician .

November 3 - Aleksandr Lyapunov (b. 1857 ), Mathematician and Physicist .