1861 in science
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The year 1861 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- May 13 - Comet C/1861 J1 (the "Great Comet of 1861") first observed from Australia by John Tebbutt.
[edit] Biology
- Anton de Bary publishes his first work on fungi, describing sexual reproduction in Peronospora.
[edit] Chemistry
- March 30 - William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium.
- Rubidium is discovered by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff, in Heidelberg, Germany, in the mineral lepidolite through the use of their spectroscope.[1][2]
- Aleksandr Butlerov is instrumental in creating the theory of chemical structure.[3]
- Josef Loschmidt publishes Chemische Studien, proposing two-dimensional representations for over 300 molecules and recognising variations in atomic size.[4]
- Ernest Solvay develops the Solvay process for the manufacture of soda ash (sodium carbonate).
[edit] Earth sciences
- Eduard Suess proposes the former existence of the supercontinent Gondwana.
[edit] Medicine and physiology
- Paul Broca identifies the speeech production center of the brain.
- Franciscus Donders introduces the term visual acuity.
- Guillaume Duchenne describes Duchenne muscular dystrophy.[5]
- Prosper Ménière reports the association of vertigo with inner ear disorders.
- Ádám Politzer publishes the technique of Politzerization used in otorhinolaryngology.
- Ignaz Semmelweis publishes Die Ätiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers, a treatment of his theory on sanitary conditions during childbirth.
[edit] Paleontology
- September - First complete identified skeleton of Archaeopteryx unearthed near Langenaltheim, Germany.[6]
[edit] Technology
- January 1 - First steam-powered carousel recorded, in Bolton, England.[7]
- William Froude publishes the first results of his research into ship hull design.[8]
- Dr. Richard J. Gatling invents the Gatling gun.[9]
[edit] Publications
- Michael Faraday's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures published as The Chemical History of a Candle.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- February 15 - Alfred North Whitehead (d. 1947), English mathematician.
- June 9 - Pierre Duhem (d. 1916), French philosopher of science.
- July 26 - Ægidius Elling (d. 1949), Norwegian gas turbine pioneer.
- December 17 - Arthur E. Kennelly (d. 1939), Irish American electrical engineer.
- Henry Gantt (d. 1919), American project engineer.
[edit] Deaths
- June 18 - Eaton Hodgkinson (b. 1789), English structural engineer.
- November 10 - Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (b. 1805), French zoologist.
- December 10 - Thomas Southwood Smith (b. 1788), English physician and sanitary reformer.
[edit] References
- ^ Kirchhoff, G.; Bunsen, R. (1861). "Chemische Analyse durch Spectralbeobachtungen". Annalen der Physik und Chemie 189 (7): 337–381. Bibcode 1861AnP...189..337K. doi:10.1002/andp.18611890702. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/andp.18611890702/abstract. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
- ^ Weeks, Mary Elvira (1932). "The discovery of the elements. XIII. Some spectroscopic discoveries". Journal of Chemical Education 9 (8): 1413–1434. Bibcode 1932JChEd...9.1413W. doi:10.1021/ed009p1413. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed009p1413. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
- ^ Kazansky, B.; Bykov, G. V., ed. (1961). Centenary of the Theory of Chemical Structure: collection of papers by A. M. Butlerov. Moscow: Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
- ^ Rzepa, Henry S. (2005). "Joseph Loschmidt: Structural formulae, 1861". http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/loschmidt/. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
- ^ "Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne". WhoNamedIt?. http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/950.html. Retrieved 2011-05-27.
- ^ Natural History Museum (London) BMNH 37001. Chiappe, Luis M. (2007). Glorified Dinosaurs. Sydney: UNSW Press. pp. 118–146. ISBN 0-471-24723-5.
- ^ "Fairground Rides - A Chronological Development". National Fairground Archive. University of Sheffield. 2007. http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk/history/rides/history.html. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
- ^ "On the rolling of ships." Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects 2 (1861): pp. 180-227; 3 (1862): pp. 45-62.
- ^ Greeley, Horace; Case, Leon (1872). The Great Industries of the United States. Hartford: J.B. Burr & Hyde. p. 944.
