2008 in science

The year 2008 in science had some important events, listed below.

 Events 

 January 15 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first flyby of Mercury at 200 km height.
 August 1 - Total solar eclipse that could be seen in Canada, Siberia, Mongolia and northern China.
 October 6 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes the second flyby of Mercury.

 Deaths 

 April 13 - John Archibald Wheeler, theoretical physicist
 April 16 - Edward Norton Lorenz, mathematician and meteorologist
 April 29 - Albert Hofmann, chemist
 May 15 - Willis Lamb, physicist, winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics

Category:2008
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