1853 in science
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The year 1853 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Biology
- March 17 - Claude Bernard presents his doctoral thesis describing the glycogenetic function of the liver.[1]
- Anton de Bary publishes the first study demonstrating that rust and smut fungi cause plant disease.
[edit] Exploration
- Alfred Russell Wallace publishes A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an account of the native tribes, and observations on the climate, geology, and natural history of the Amazon Valley.
[edit] Mathematics
- Jakob Steiner investigates the Steiner system.[2]
[edit] Medicine
- William Little publishes a paper "On the Deformities of the Human Frame" in which he gives the first descripion of pseudo-hypertrophic muscular dystrophy.[3]
- Charles Pravaz and Alexander Wood independently invent a practical hypodermic syringe.
- Antoine Desormeaux produces and names an endoscope illuminated by a kerosene lamp, using it to examine the urinary tract.[4]
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: Adolphe d'Archiac; Edouard de Verneuil
[edit] Births
- July 18 - Hendrik Lorentz (d. 1928), Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
- September 2 - Wilhelm Ostwald (d. 1932), Baltic German chemist.
- September 9 - Pierre Marie (d. 1940), French neurologist.
[edit] Deaths
- March 17 - Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and discoverer of the Doppler effect (b. 1803)
- April 23 - Auguste Laurent (b. 1807), chemist.
- October 2 - François Arago (b. 1786), mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.
- October 18 - Johann Fischer von Waldheim (b. 1771), naturalist.
[edit] References
- ^ Nouvell fonction du foie, considéré comme organe producteur de matière sucrée chez l'homme et les animaux. Paris.
- ^ Steiner, J. (1853). "Combinatorische Außgabe". Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik 45: 181–182.
- ^ Siegel, I. M. (1988). "Historical Vignette #9. Little big man: the life and genius of William John Little (1810-1894)". Orthopedic Review 17: 1156, 1161–6. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3060808&dopt=Abstract.
- ^ Engel, Rainer (2007). "Development of the Modern Cystoscope: An Illustrated History". Medscape. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/561774. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
