1893 in science explained
The year 1893 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Chemistry
Earth sciences
Exploration
Mathematics
Medicine
Physics
Technology
Awards
Births
- February 3 – Gaston Julia (died 1978), French mathematician.
- February 24 – Tokushichi Mishima (died 1975), Japanese inventor and metallurgist.
- April 29 – Harold Urey (died 1981), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- April 30 – Roy Chadwick (died 1947), English aircraft designer.
- June 13 – Alan A. Griffith (died 1963), English stress engineer.
- August 5 – Sydney Camm (died 1966), English aircraft designer.
- August 15 – Leslie Comrie (died 1950), New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer.
- August 24 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer (died 1978), German Jewish biochemist.
- August 25 – Henry Trendley Dean (died 1962), American dental researcher.
- September 16 – Albert Szent-Györgyi (died 1986), Hungarian physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- October 23 – Ernst Öpik (died 1985), Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist.
- November 3 – Edward Adelbert Doisy (died 1986), American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- December 3 – Wilhelm Pelikan (died 1981), Austrian chemist.
- December 14 – Alf Lysholm (died 1973), Swedish mechanical engineer.
- December – Eugène Gabritschevsky (died 1979), Russian biologist and artist.
Deaths
- January 2 – John Obadiah Westwood (born 1805), English entomologist.
- January 7 – Jožef Stefan (born 1835), Slovenian physicist and mathematician.
- March 3 – Orlando Whistlecraft (died 1810), English meteorologist.
- August 16 – Jean-Martin Charcot (born 1825), French neurologist.
- September 1 – Leonard Jenyns (born 1800), English natural historian.
- November 6 - Justin Benoît, (born 1813), French surgeon and anatomist
- December 4 – John Tyndall (born 1820), British physicist.
- December 6 – Rudolf Wolf (born 1816), Swiss astronomer.
- December 25 – Marie Durocher (born 1809), Brazilian obstetrician and physician.
- December 28 – Richard Spruce (born 1817), English botanist.
Notes and References
- Goldschmidt, H. (13 March 1895). Verfahren zur Herstellung von Metallen oder Metalloiden oder Legierungen derselben ("Process for the production of metals or metalloids or alloys of the same"). Deutsche Reichs Patent no. 96317.
- Web site: Alfred Werner: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1913. Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1901–1921. Elsevier Publishing Company. 1966. 2007-03-24.
- Sylvester. J. J.. Mathematical question 11851. The Educational Times. 46. 383. 1893. 156.
- Bechterew. W.. Steifigkeit der Wirbelsaule und ihre Verkrummung als besondere Erkrankungsform. Neurologisches Centralblatt. 1893. 12. 426–434.
- 10891/1893, issued 3 May 1894.
- Web site: Terence. Trudeau. The Work and Life of John Csonka. Csonka János Emlékmúzeum. 1990. 2012-01-30.
- Acheson, G. (1893) Production of artificial crystalline carbonaceous material.
- granted December 26, 1893. Book: Historic American Engineering Record. Historic American Engineering Record. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Fort Point Channel Rolling Lift Bridge (Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge). HAER, MA-35. Washington, DC. 1984. 7–8. 2012-02-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20120302023639/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ma/ma1200/ma1232/data/ma1232data.pdf. 2012-03-02. dead.
- Book: Anderson, Norman D.. Ferris wheels: an illustrated history. 1992. Popular Press . 9780879725327.
- Web site: The Big Wheel . Hyde Park Historical Society . Patrick . Meehan . 2011-10-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130118143455/http://www.hydeparkhistory.org/newsletter.html . 2013-01-18 .
- Book: Sass, Friedrich. Geschichte des deutschen Verbrennungsmotorenbaus von 1860 bis 1918. Springer. Berlin; Heidelberg. 1962. 978-3-662-11843-6. 435.
- Book: Diesel, Rudolf. Die Entstehung des Dieselmotors. Springer. Berlin. 1913. 978-3-642-64940-0. 13.
- Web site: Η αντίστροφη μέτρηση. Διώρυγα Κορίνθου. 2009. 2012-11-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20120328044804/http://www.aedik.gr/frontend/articles.php?cid=44&scid=51. 2012-03-28. dead.
- Engineering News 29 (16 February 1893) pp. 162–163.
- Book: Bierley, Paul E.. The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa. registration. 2006. University of Illinois Press. Champaign. 978-0-252-03147-2. 55–.
- Web site: Copley Medal British scientific award . Encyclopedia Britannica . 23 July 2020 . en.