1898 In Science

Chemistry

• Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers discover Neon, Krypton, Xenon and Argon

Awards

• Copley Medal: William Huggins
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Ferdinand Zirkel

Births

• March 3 - Emil Artin (d. 1962), mathematician.
• June 26 - Willy Messerschmitt (d. 1978), German aircraft engineer.
• July 29 - I.I. Rabi (d. 1988), American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for invention of the atomic beam magnetic resonance method of measuring magnetic properties of atoms and molecules.
• September 10 - Waldo Semon (d. 1999), American inventor.

Deaths

• March 15 - Henry Bessemer (b. 1813), inventor of the Bessemer process, which revolutionized the steel industry.
• September 14 - William Seward Burroughs (b. 1855), inventor of the calculator.

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