Overview of the events of 1892 in science
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The year 1892 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Environment
Geography
Mathematics
Medicine
Psychology
Technology
Publications
- Brothers Richard and Cherry Kearton publish With Nature and a Camera in the United Kingdom, the first nature book illustrated entirely from photographs.
Awards
Births
- January 1 – Guido Fanconi (died 1979), Swiss pediatrician.
- March 30 – Stefan Banach (died 1945), Polish mathematician.
- April 14 – Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (died 1979), German astronomer.
- May 3 – George Paget Thomson (died 1975), English atomic physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1937).
- July 24 – Alice Ball (died 1916), African American chemist.
- July 25 – Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes (died 1973), South African-born military physician.
- August 15 – Louis-Victor de Broglie (died 1987), French recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1929).
- August 19 – Elizabeth Kozlova (died 1975), Russian ornithologist
- August 26
- September 6 – Edward Victor Appleton (died 1965), English radiophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1947).
- October 26 – André Chapelon (died 1978), French steam locomotive designer.
- November 5 – J. B. S. Haldane (died 1964), British geneticist.
- November 21 – Margery C. Carlson (died 1985), American botanist.
- December 12 – Herman Potočnik (Noordung) (died 1929), Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics.
Deaths
- January 2 – George Biddell Airy (born 1801), English astronomer royal.
- January 21 – John Couch Adams (born 1819), English mathematician.
- March 29 – Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (born 1816), English ophthalmologist, histologist and anatomist.
- April 2 – Emin Pasha (born 1840), Silesian Jewish Ottoman explorer.
- May 5 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann (born 1818), German chemist
- June 27 – Carl Schorlemmer (born 1834), German organic chemist.
- December 6 – Werner von Siemens (born 1816), German electrical engineer.
- December 18 – Richard Owen (born 1804), English anatomist and paleontologist.
References
- ^ Iwanowski, D. (1892). "Über die Mosaikkrankheit der Tabakspflanze". Bulletin Scientifique Publié Par l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg / Nouvelle Serie III (in German and Russian). 35. Saint Petersburg: 67–70. JSTOR 43221892. Translated into English in Johnson, J. (ed.) (1942) Phytopathological classics (St. Paul, Minnesota: American Phytopathological Society) No. 7, pp. 27–30. doi:10.1094/9780890545225.001
- ^ Morens, David M.; Taubenberger, Jeffery K.; Folkers, Gregory K.; Fauci, Anthony S. (2010-12-15). "Pandemic Influenza's 500th Anniversary". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 51 (12): 1442–1444. doi:10.1086/657429. ISSN 1058-4838. PMC 3106245. PMID 21067353.
- ^ Taubenberger, Jeffery K; Hultin, Johan V; Morens, David M (2007). "Discovery and Characterization of the 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus in Historical Context". Antiviral Therapy. 12 (4_part_2): 581–591. doi:10.1177/135965350701200S02.1. ISSN 1359-6535. PMC 2391305. PMID 17944266.
- ^ James, Frank. "Dewar, James". Chemistry Explained. Advameg Inc. Archived from the original on 15 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
- ^ Bell, Morag; McEwan, Cheryl (1996-01-01). "The Admission of Women Fellows to the Royal Geographical Society, 1892-1914; the Controversy and the Outcome". The Geographical Journal. 162 (3): 295–312. doi:10.2307/3059652. JSTOR 3059652.
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Anleitung zur aseptischen Wundbehandlung ("Guide to the aseptic treatment of wounds").
- ^ Parke, A. L.; Buchanan, W. W. (1998). "Sjögren's syndrome: History, clinical and pathological features". Inflammopharmacology. 6 (4): 271–287. doi:10.1007/s10787-998-0012-6. PMID 17657625. S2CID 12580734.
- ^ Fox, R. I. (2005). "Sjögren's syndrome". The Lancet. 366 (9482): 321–331. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(05)66990-5. PMID 16039337. S2CID 16426363.
- ^ Golden, Richard (2004). A history of William Osler's 'The Principles and Practice of Medicine'. Osler Library studies in the history of medicine, no. 8. Montreal: McGill University. ISBN 0-7717-0615-4.
- ^ Crown Cork Bottle Cap - U.S. Patent #468258.
- ^ RP 67207 Arbeitsverfahren und Ausführungsart für Verbrennungsmaschinen.
- ^ McBeth, Douglas (1998). "Francois Hennebique (1842–1921) – Reinforced concrete pioneer". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.