1898 in science

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The year 1898 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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William Ramsay and Morris Travers discover Neon,^[1] Krypton (May 30) and Xenon (July 12).^[2]
December 26 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce discovery of a substance they call radium.

June 23 - Royal Army Medical Corps formed within the British Army.^[3]
October 28 - French serial killer Joseph Vacher is convicted, based largely on forensic evidence presented by Alexandre Lacassagne.
Patrick Manson publishes Tropical Diseases: a manual of the diseases of warm climates in London, a pioneering English language textbook in tropical medicine.

March 3 - Emil Artin (d. 1962), Austrian-born mathematician.
June 26 - Willy Messerschmitt (d. 1978), German aeronautical engineer.
July 29 - I.I. Rabi (d. 1988), American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for invention of the atomic beam magnetic resonance method of measuring magnetic properties of atoms and molecules.
September 10 - Waldo Semon (d. 1999), American inventor.
November 16 - Warren Sturgis McCulloch (d. 1969), American neurophysiologist and cybernetician.

March 12 - Johann Balmer (b. 1825), Swiss mathematician.
March 15 - Henry Bessemer (b. 1813), English inventor of the Bessemer process for steelmaking.
May 29 - Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair (b. 1818), Scottish chemist.
August 27 - John Hopkinson (b. 1849), English electrical engineer (killed in climbing accident).
September 14 - William Seward Burroughs (b. 1855), American inventor of the adding machine.
November 20 - Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet (b. 1817), English civil engineer.

^ Ramsay; Travers, Morris W. (1898). "On the Companions of Argon". Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) 63 (1): 437–440. doi:10.1098/rspl.1898.0057.
^ Emsley, John (2001). Nature's Building Blocks: an A–Z Guide to the Elements. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850340-7.
^ Blair, John S.G. (2001). In Arduis Fidelis: Centenary History of the Royal Army Medical Corps (2nd ed.). [Burntisland]: iynx Publishing. ISBN 0-9540583-2-1.