For his part, Ernst Zermelo in his ( 1908 ) A new proof of the possibility of a well-ordering ( published at the same time he published " the first axiomatic set theory ") laid claim to prior discovery of the antinomy in Cantor's naive set theory.

Zermelo set theory, as set out in an important paper in 1908 by Ernst Zermelo, is the ancestor of modern set theory.

* 1908: Ernst Brenner

* 1907 – 1908: " Hohenhof ", Mansion for Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, Germany

* Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg ( 1853 – 1908 )

* Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg ( 1908 – 1918 )

* Ernst König ( 1908 – 1986 ), Wehrmacht officer during World War II

In mathematics, the Phragmén – Lindelöf principle is a 1908 extension by Lars Edvard Phragmén ( 1863 – 1937 ) and Ernst Leonard Lindelöf of the maximum modulus principle of complex analysis, to unbounded domains.

Traugott Schiess, " Briefwechsel der Brüder Ambrosius und Thomas Blaurer 1509-1567 ", Freiburg: Ernst Fehsenfeld, 1908

Ernst Zermelo in his 1908 A new proof of the possibility of a well-ordering presents an entire section " b. Objection concerning nonpredicative definition " where he argued against " Poincaré ( 1906, p. 307 ) states that a definition is ' predicative ' and logically admissible only if it excludes all objects that are dependent upon the notion defined, that is, that can in any way be determined by it ".

* Ernst Kremnitz ( 1859 – 1908 ), German entrepreneur

In 1908, two ways of avoiding the paradox were proposed, Russell's type theory and the Zermelo set theory, the first constructed axiomatic set theory.

The Zermelo set theory of 1908 included urelements.

When Zermelo proposed his axioms for set theory in 1908, he proved Cantor's theorem from them to demonstrate their strength.

In 1908, a statewide referendum that proposed moving the California state capital to Berkeley was defeated by a margin of about 33, 000 votes.

Some sort of continental drift without expansion was proposed by Frank Bursley Taylor, who suggested in 1908 ( published in 1910 ) that the continents were dragged towards the equator by increased lunar gravity during the Cretaceous, thus forming the Himalayas and Alps on the southern faces.

Particularly important was the work of Paul Ehrlich, who proposed the side-chain theory to explain the specificity of the antigen-antibody reaction ; his contributions to the understanding of humoral immunity were recognized by the award of a Nobel Prize in 1908, which was jointly awarded to the founder of cellular immunology, Elie Metchnikoff.

As British public opinion was turned against Germany, Admiral Sir John Fisher twice – in 1904 and 1908 – proposed using Britain ’ s current naval superiority to ' Copenhagen ' the German fleet, that is, to launch preemptive strikes against the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases as the Royal Navy had done against the Danish navy in 1801 and 1807.

A different resolution, which does not rely on the Big Bang theory, was first proposed by Carl Charlier in 1908 and later rediscovered by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1974.

According to the American writer Kevin Self, in the 1920s a German committee member of the International Electrotechnical Commission proposed giga-as a prefix for 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >, drawing on a verse by the humorous poet Christian Morgenstern that appeared in the third ( 1908 ) edition of Galgenlieder ( Gallows Songs ).

* 1908: The term " stem cell " was proposed for scientific use by the Russian histologist Alexander Maksimov ( 1874 – 1928 ) at congress of hematologic society in Berlin.

While spacetime can be viewed as a consequence of Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, it was first explicitly proposed mathematically by one of his teachers, the mathematician Hermann Minkowski, in a 1908 essay building on and extending Einstein's work.

The Democratic Party, led by William Jennings Bryan, advocated the income tax law passed in 1894, and proposed an income tax in its 1908 platform.

The first five bills, proposed in the years 1901, 1902, and 1908, met with defeat because of opposition from Speaker Joe Cannon.

Scientists debated whether umami was indeed a basic taste ever since Kikunae Ikeda proposed its existence in 1908.

The legislative struggle to enforce laws against brutal ship's captains and the requirement that two-thirds of sailors be Americans was proposed and the effort was carried for thirty years by Andrew Furuseth and the Sailors ' Union of the Pacific after 1908, and the International Seamen's Union of America.

The first such attempt was proposed in 1908 for incorporation as the city of Vista Grande.

In 1908, York Harbor proposed secession from York, first as a new town called Yorktown, then as Gorges after Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the early proprietor of Maine.

Sir William Chambers, assisted by John Yenn, was responsible for the small summerhouse known as " The Temple of Diana " down by the lake, where in 1908 Winston Churchill proposed to his future wife.

In 1908, the local Bristol antiquarian Alfred Hudd first proposed the theory that the word America had evolved from Amerike or ap Meryk, based on a lost manuscript that he claimed to have seen.

In 1908, the club's annual general meeting proposed moving to a new ground near Reading railway station.

The Populist Party, led by William Jennings Bryan, advocated the income tax law passed in 1894, and proposed an income tax in its 1908 platform.

In 1908, when Deakin proposed the Commonwealth Liberal Party, a " Fusion " of the two non-Labor parties, Reid stood aside from the leadership.

In 1908 they delivered to France's Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau a petition that expressed opposition under the status quo to a proposed policy to conscript Muslim Algerians into the French army.

In 1905 Lanz and some 50 other supporters of List signed a declaration endorsing the proposed Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft ( Guido von List Society ), which was officially founded in 1908.

With the level of teaching growing, in 1895 John Leigh Smeathman Hatton, Director of Evening Classes ( 1892 – 1896 ; later Director of Studies 1896 – 1908 and Principal 1908 – 1933 ) proposed introducing a course of study leading to the Bachelor of Science degree of the University of London.

This was set up at the beginning of 1908 to make films of a serious artistic nature.

In 1908 the Zionist Organisation set up the Palestine Bureau ( also known as the " Eretz Israel Office ") in Jaffa and began to adopt a systematic Jewish settlement policy in Palestine.

Oldest city in the region, despite its ancient foundation-Ρηγιον was an important and flourishing colony of Magna Graecia-it boasts a modern urban system, set up after the catastrophic earthquake on December 28, 1908, which destroyed most of the city.

Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, written in 1908, is set in the middle to upper reaches of the river.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

Rudimentary education in gemology for jewelers and gemologists began in the nineteenth century, but the first qualifications were instigated after the National Association of Goldsmiths of Great Britain ( NAG ) set up a Gemmological Committee for this purpose in 1908.

For his final assault on the pole, he and 23 men, including Ross Gilmore Marvin, set off from New York City aboard the Roosevelt under the command of Captain Robert Bartlett on July 6, 1908.

On March 10, 1908, Red Bank was formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature and was set off from Shrewsbury Township.

By 1908 the tiny village was home to the Covington Lumber Company, which had set up a mill capable of cutting 85, 000 board feet of timber a day.

The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile became popular.

" Take Me Out to the Ball Game ", the song written by lyricist Jack Norworth and set to music by Albert Von Tilzer gave Cracker Jack free publicity when it was released in 1908 with the line " buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack!

The novel The Fiery Angel ( 1908 ) by Valery Bryusov ( on which Sergei Prokofiev's opera The Fiery Angel is based ), set in the sixteenth century, features a visit paid to Agrippa by the protagonist Ruprecht who is seeking advice on the occult.

The team originated in 1908 as a semi-pro team named the Akron Indians, however name was changed to the Pros in 1920 as the team set out to become a charter member of the American Professional Football Association Fritz Pollard, the first African-American head coach in the NFL, co-coached the Pros in 1921.

Toscanini served as the Met's principal conductor ( but with no official title ) from 1908 to 1915, leading the company in performances of Verdi, Wagner and others that set standards for the company for decades to come.

The National University of Ireland and Queen's University Belfast were based on the UK university college system, and were both set up in 1908 before the establishment of the Republic of Ireland and having roots in the earlier Queen's University of Ireland which was also a university college-type system.

The whales are named after Norwegian entrepreneur, Johan Bryde, who helped set up the first whaling station in Durban, South Africa in 1908.

As Luxemburg grew the need for fire protection, street improvements, and other public services set the stage for incorporation in 1908.