The year 1918 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Biology
Physics
Technology
Awards
Births
- January 27 - Antonín Mrkos (d. 1996), astronomer.
- March 16 - Frederick Reines (d. 1998), physicist.
- April 4 - Joseph Ashbrook (d. 1980), astronomer.
- April 25 - Gérard de Vaucouleurs (d. 1995), astronomer.
- May 11 - Richard Feynman (d. 1988), physicist, Nobel laureate.
- July 15 - Bertram N. Brockhouse (d. 2003), physicist.
- August 13 - Frederick Sanger, molecular biologist.
- September 27 - Martin Ryle (d. 1984), astronomer.
- November 10 - Ernst Otto Fischer (d. 2007), chemist, Nobel laureate.
- November 19 - Hendrik C. van de Hulst (d. 2000), astronomer.
- December 25 - Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova, astronomer.
Deaths
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