From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1879 in science
1879 in science
List of years in science (Table)
Table) Paleontology
… 1869 • 1870 • 1871 • 1872 • 1873 • 1874 • 1875 • • Camptosaurus prestwichii found at Cumnor, near
1876 • 1877 • 1878 – 1879 – 1880 • 1881 • 1882 •
Oxford.
1883 • 1884 • 1885 • 1886 • 1887 • 1888 • 1889 …
Related time period or subjects
Physics
… 1876 • 1877 • 1878 – 1879 – 1880 • 1881 • 1882 …
… 1840s • 1850s • 1860s – 1870s – 1880s • 1890s • 1900s … • Edwin Hall discovers the Hall Effect.
… 18th century – 19th century – 20th century …
Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Science Psychology
more
• Wilhelm Wundt creates the first laboratory of
experimental psychology, at the University of
The year 1879 in science and technology involved some
Leipzig.
significant events, listed below.
Biology Technology
• May 31 - Werner von Siemens demonstrates the first
• Jean Henri Fabre publishes the first of his Souvenirs
electric locomotive using an external power source
entomologiques.
at Berlin.
• Heinrich Anton de Bary coins the term symbiosis in
• October 22 - Thomas Edison successfully tests a
his monograph Die Erscheinung der Symbiose
carbon filament thread in an incandescent light bulb.
(Strasbourg).[1]
Chemistry Awards
• Copley Medal: Rudolf Clausius
• January 2 - Publication of first issue of Journal of the
• Wollaston Medal: Bernhard Studer
American Chemical Society.
• Per Teodor Cleve discovers the elements holmium
and thulium. Births
• Lars Fredrik Nilson discovers the element scandium.
• January 1 - Ernest Jones (d. 1958), Welsh
psychoanalyst.
Earth sciences • February 22 - J. N. Brønsted (d. 1947), physical
chemist.
• Vasily Dokuchaev introduces the concept of
• March 8 - Otto Hahn (d. 1968), German physicist who
pedology, laying the foundations for the study of soil
received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
science.[2]
• March 14 - Albert Einstein (d. 1955), scientist and
winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics.
History of science • May 28 - Milutin Milanković (d. 1958), geophysicist.
• Carl Schorlemmer publishes The Rise and Development
of Organic Chemistry. Deaths
• March 3 - William Kingdon Clifford (b. 1845),
Medicine geometer.
• James Crichton-Browne publishes "On the weight of • April 16 - Peter Kozler (b. 1824), geographer and
the brain and its component parts in the insane",[3] a cartographer.
key paper in the neuropathology of insanity.[4] • May 4 - William Froude (b. 1810), hydrodynamicist.
• November 5 - James Clerk Maxwell (b. 1831),
mathematician and physicist.
1
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1879 in science
References [3]
[4]
Brain 1: 514-18; 2: 42-67
Compston, Alastair (2007). "On the weight of the
[1] Bates, Marston (1950). The Nature of Natural History. brain and its component parts in the insane. By J.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. p. 125. Crichton-Browne, MD, FRSE, Lord Chancellor’s
[2] Dokuchaev, V.V. (1879). Short Historical Visitor. Brain 1879: 1; 514–518 and 1879: 2; 42–67".
Description and Critical Analysis of the More Brain 130 (3): 599–601. doi:10.1093/brain/awm020.
Important Soil Classifications. Trav. Soc. Nat. St. http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/130/3/
10:
Petersburg 10 64-67 (In Russian); Tchernozeme (terre 599.full.
noire) de la Russie d‘Europe. St. Petersburg: Société
Impériale Libre Économique.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1879_in_science&oldid=459630744"
Categories:
• 1879 in science
This page was last modified on 8 November 2011 at 14:10. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-
ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of use for details. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of
the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact us
Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Mobile view
2