1908 in science

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The year 1908 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Archaeology

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

June 30 [O.S. June 17] - Tunguska event in Siberia, an explosion believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5–10 kilometres (3–6 mi) above the Earth's surface.^[1]^[2]^[3]

G. H. Hardy and Wilhelm Weinberg independently formulate the Hardy–Weinberg principle which states that both allele and genotype frequencies in a population remain in equilibrium unless disturbed.^[5]

Site of Ulugh Beg Observatory located in Samarkand by Russian archaeologist V. L. Vyatkin.

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.
Student's t-distribution published by William Sealy Gosset (anonymously).^[6]

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.

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 2 - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (d. 1983), Russian astronomer and astrophysicist.
September 6 - Louis Essen (d. 1997), physicist, co-developer of the first practical atomic clock.
October 10 - Min Chueh Chang (d. 1991), embryologist.
October 21 - Elsie Widdowson (d. 2000), nutritionist.

^ Pasechnik, I. P. (1986). "Refinement of the moment of explosion of the Tunguska meteorite from the seismic data" (in Russian). Cosmic Matter and the Earth. Novosibirsk: Nauka. p. 66.
^ Farinella, P.; Foschini, L.; Froeschlé, Ch.; Gonczi, R.; Jopek, T. J.; Longo, G.; Michel, P. (2001). "Probable asteroidal origin of the Tunguska Cosmic Body". Astronomy & Astrophysics 377: 1081–1097. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20011054. http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/aah2886.pdf. Retrieved 2011-08-23.
^ Trayner, Chris (1994). "Perplexities of the Tunguska Meteorite". The Observatory 114: 227–231. http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1994Obs...114..227T/0000227.000.html. Retrieved 2011-08-23.
^ "Kikunae Ikeda Sodium Glutamate". History of Industrial Property Rights. Japan Patent Office. 2002-10-07. http://www.jpo.go.jp/seido_e/rekishi_e/kikunae_ikeda.htm. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
^ 'Student' (March 1908). "The probable error of a mean". Biometrika 6 (1): 1–25. doi:10.1093/biomet/6.1.1. http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/student.pdf. Retrieved 2011-10-08.
^ Kuhn, R. (2004). "Eugen Bleuler's concepts of psychopathology". History of Psychiatry 15: 361–6. doi:10.1177/0957154X04044603. PMID 15386868.