Overview of the events of 1879 in science
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The year 1879 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
- British children's writer and amateur astronomer Agnes Giberne publishes the popular illustrated book Sun, Moon and Stars: Astronomy for Beginners which sells 24,000 copies on both sides of the Atlantic in twenty years.[1]
Biology
Cartography
Chemistry
Earth sciences
History of science
Mathematics
Medicine
Meteorology
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Pharmacology
Physics
Psychology
Technology
Awards
Births
- January 1 – Ernest Jones (died 1958), Welsh psychoanalyst.
- February 1 – Henri Chrétien (died 1956), French astronomer and optical inventor.
- February 22 – J. N. Brønsted (died 1947), Danish physical chemist.
- March 8 – Otto Hahn (died 1968), German physicist and winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- March 10 – Wu Lien-teh (died 1960), Malayan Chinese physician.
- March 14 – Albert Einstein (died 1955), German-born physicist and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- May 28 – Milutin Milanković (died 1958), Serbian geophysicist.
- June 3 – Raymond Pearl (died 1940), American biologist.
- August 29 – May Smith (died 1968), English experimental psychologist.
- October 9 – Max von Laue (died 1960), German physicist and winner of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Deaths
References
- ^ Chapman, Allan (1999). The Victorian Amateur Astronomer: Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920. Chichester: John Wiley. ISBN 0-471-96257-0.
- ^ Bates, Marston (1950). The Nature of Natural History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 125.
- ^ Klein, Christopher (2014-02-14). "The Sweet History of Chocolate". History. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
- ^ fsu.edu: Otto Schott (CV)
- ^ Dokuchaev, V.V. (1879). Short Historical Description and Critical Analysis of the More Important Soil Classifications. Trav. Soc. Nat. St. Petersburg 10: 64-67 (In Russian); Tchernozeme (terre noire) de la Russie d‘Europe. St. Petersburg: Société Impériale Libre Économique.
- ^ Wilson, Robin (2008). Lewis Carroll in Numberland. London: Allen Lane. pp. 91–95. ISBN 978-0-7139-9757-6.
- ^ Klein, Felix (1879). "Ueber die Transformation siebenter Ordnung der elliptischen Functionen". Mathematische Annalen. 14: 428–471. doi:10.1007/BF01677143.. Translated into English by Silvio Levy as "On the order-seven transformation of elliptic functions", The Eightfold Way, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, vol. 35, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 287–331, MR 1722419
- ^ Brain 1: 514-18; 2: 42-67
- ^ Compston, Alastair (2007). "On the weight of the brain and its component parts in the insane. By J. Crichton-Browne, MD, FRSE, Lord Chancellor's Visitor. Brain 1879: 1; 514–518 and 1879: 2; 42–67". Brain. 130 (3): 599–601. doi:10.1093/brain/awm020.
- ^ von Winiwarter, F. (1879). "Ueber eine eigenthumliche Form von Endarteriitis und Endophlebitis mit Gangran des Fusses". Archiv für Klinische Chirurgie. 23: 202–26.
- ^ Yentis, S. M.; Vlassakov, K. V. (1999). "Vassily von Anrep, forgotten pioneer of regional anesthesia". Anesthesiology. 90 (3): 890–5. doi:10.1097/00000542-199903000-00033. PMID 10078692.
- ^ "Über die Beziehung zwischen der Wärmestrahlung und der Temperatur" in Bulletin of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.
- ^ "1879". Co-Curate. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
- ^ "SS Rotomahana". Clydebuilt. Archived from the original on 2005-03-12. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Who Built the First Oil Engine?". Stationary Engine. 190: 5. December 1989. Acquired for collection of The Henry Ford.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.