1918 In Science

Physics

• J. Lense and Hans Thirring find the gravitomagnetic precession of gyroscopes in the equations of general relativity
• Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordstrm solve the Einstein-Maxwell field equations for charged spherically-symmetric non-rotating systems
• Friedrich Kottler gets Schwarzschild solution without Einstein vacuum field equations

Nobel Prizes

• Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
• Fritz Haber is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Births

• March 16 - Frederick Reines (d. 1998), physicist.
• May 11 - Richard Feynman (d. 1988), American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics.
• July 15 - Bertram N. Brockhouse (d. 2003), physicist.
• August 13 - Frederick Sanger, molecular biologist.

Deaths

• January 6 - Georg Cantor (b. 1845), mathematician.
• January 26 - Ewald Hering (b. 1834), physiologist.
• April 20 - Karl Ferdinand Braun (b. 1850), physicist.
• May 31 - Alexander Mitscherlich (b. 1836), chemist.
• September 7 - Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (b. 1832), mathematician.

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