- 1898 in science
The year 1898 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Archaeology
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Narmer Palette is discovered inHierakonpolis ,Egypt .Chemistry
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26 December - Marie andPierre Curie announce discovery of a substance they call "radium ".
*Sir William Ramsay andMorris Travers discoverNeon ,Krypton ,Xenon andArgon .Awards
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Copley Medal :William Huggins
*Wollaston Medal for Geology:Ferdinand Zirkel Births
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March 3 -Emil Artin (d. 1962),mathematician .
*June 26 -Willy Messerschmitt (d. 1978), Germanaircraft engineer .
*July 29 -I.I. Rabi (d. 1988), Americanphysicist , winner ofNobel Prize in Physics in1944 for invention of the atomic beam magnetic resonance method of measuring magnetic properties ofatom s andmolecule s.
*September 10 -Waldo Semon (d. 1999), Americaninventor .Deaths
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March 15 -Henry Bessemer (b. 1813), inventor of theBessemer process , which revolutionized the steel industry.
*September 14 - William Seward Burroughs (b. 1855), inventor of theadding machine .
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