1918 in science
Events
- July 24th: The Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi discovers the virus of the Yellow fever.
- September 28th: 5th international congress of psychoanalysis to Budapest.
- the engineer Paul Langevin develops technical it of emission and reception of the ultrasounds.
-
Edwin Armstrong develops the receiver Radio AM.
- the American Astronome Harlow Shapley gives the measurement of our galaxy.
- Introduction of the Gregorian Calendar in Russia.
Price
- Physical Nobel Prize
- : max Planck (German) for the Quantum theory.
- Chemistry: Fritz Haber (German) for the synthesis of the Ammonia.
- Physiology or medicine: Not decreed
- Medal Wollaston: Charles Doolittle Walcott
Births
Death
- April 20th: Karl Ferdinand Brawn, German physicist, with New York.
- July 7th: Joseph Grasset, specialist physician of the nervous diseases, with Montpellier.
- November 4th: James Jackson Putman, neuropsychiatrist.
- September 7th: Ludwig Sylow Norwegian Mathematician .
| Random links: | Patxi Garat | Guillaume de Vermandois | Cergy-prefecture | At the borders of the paddle | Battle of Smoliani | Étincelle_essentielle |