1879 in science explained
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
Paleontology
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
Notes and References
- Book: Chapman, Allan. The Victorian Amateur Astronomer: Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920. Chichester. John Wiley. 1999. 0-471-96257-0.
- Book: Bates, Marston. The Nature of Natural History. registration. 125. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1950.
- Web site: The Sweet History of Chocolate. 2014-02-14. Christopher. Klein. History. 2014-03-03.
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- 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.
- Book: Wilson, Robin. Robin Wilson (mathematician)
. Lewis Carroll in Numberland. Robin Wilson (mathematician). London. Allen Lane. 2008. 978-0-7139-9757-6. 91–95.
- Klein. Felix. 10.1007/BF01677143. Mathematische Annalen. 428–471. Ueber die Transformation siebenter Ordnung der elliptischen Functionen. 14. 1879. . Translated into English by Silvio Levy as
- Brain 1: 514-18; 2: 42-67
- Alastair. Compston. 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. 2007. 599–601. 10.1093/brain/awm020. 3. free.
- von Winiwarter. F.. Ueber eine eigenthumliche Form von Endarteriitis und Endophlebitis mit Gangran des Fusses. Archiv für Klinische Chirurgie. 23. 202–26. 1879.
- Yentis, S. M. . Vlassakov, K. V. . Vassily von Anrep, forgotten pioneer of regional anesthesia. Anesthesiology. 90. 3. 890–5. 1999. 10078692. 10.1097/00000542-199903000-00033.
- "Über die Beziehung zwischen der Wärmestrahlung und der Temperatur" in Bulletin of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.
- Web site: 1879. Co-Curate. 2022-03-21.
- Web site: SS Rotomahana. Clydebuilt. https://web.archive.org/web/20050312163620/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=10503. dead. 2005-03-12. 2014-04-14.
- Who Built the First Oil Engine?. Stationary Engine. 190. December 1989. 5. Acquired for collection of The Henry Ford.
- Web site: Copley Medal British scientific award . Encyclopedia Britannica . 23 July 2020 . en.