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1908
Cepheid variables, Henrietta Leavitt
Hardy-Weinberg law derived.
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8 January 1908 discovery of 660 Crescentia
22 January 1908 discovery of 656 Beagle
23 January 1908 discovery of 657 Gunlöd and 658 Asteria
22 February 1908 discovery of 661 Cloelia
23 March 1908 discovery of 659 Nestor
30 March 1908 discovery of 662 Newtonia
6 April 1908 discovery of 755 Quintilla
26 April 1908 discovery of 756 Lilliana
24 June 1908 discovery of 663 Gerlinde and 664 Judith
22 July 1908 discovery of 665 Sabine
23 July 1908 discovery of 666 Desdemona and 667 Denise
27 July 1908 discovery of 668 Dora
20 August 1908 discovery of 669 Kypria and 670 Ottegebe
30 August 1908 discovery of 675 Ludmilla
20 September 1908 discovery of 673 Edda
21 September 1908 discovery of 671 Carnegia and 672 Astarte
30 September 1908 discovery of 757 Portlandia
21 October 1908 discovery of 525 Adelaide
28 October 1908 discovery of 674 Rachele
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3 January 1908, Death of Charles Augustus Young in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
14 January 1908, Death of Robert Lewis John Ellery in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
15 January 1908 Birth of Edward Teller
22 January 1908 Birth of Lev Davidovich Landau
31 March 1908 Birth of Philip Childs Keenan in Bellevue, Pennsylvania, USA
23 May 1908 Birth of John Bardeen
27 January 1908 discovery of Pasiphaë
30 May 1908 Birth of Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén in Norrköping, Sweden
25 August 1908 Death of Antoine Henri Becquerel
2 September 1908 Birth of Nikolai Alexandrovich Kozyrev in Saint Petersburg, Russia
23 October 1908 Birth of Ilya Mikhailovich Frank
22 November 1908, Birth of Arthur Adel in Brooklyn, New York, USA
1908 Birth of Alfred Hershey
1908 Death of Henry Clifton Sorby
1908 Birth of Bengt Strömgren
1908 Birth of Joseph Lade Pawsey
1908 Birth of Erik Holmberg
1908 Birth of Raymond Herb
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Nobel Prize
Physics to GABRIEL JONAS LIPPMANN for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference.
Chemistry to Ernest Rutherford "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances"
Physiology or Medicine to Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov and Paul Ehrlich "in recognition of their work on immunity"
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