1872 in science
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The year 1872 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Chemistry
- Robert Chesebrough patents Vaseline in the United States.[1]
- Eugen Baumann rediscovers polyvinyl chloride.
- Charles-Adolphe Wurtz discovers the aldol reaction.
[edit] Conservation
- March 1 - Yellowstone National Park is established in the United States, the world's first national park.[2][3]
[edit] Exploration
- December 21 - Start of the Challenger expedition.[4]
[edit] Mathematics
- Richard Dedekind publishes Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen, a theory of irrational numbers.[5]
- Felix Klein produces the Erlangen program on geometries.[5]
[edit] Medicine
- Moritz Kaposi describes Kaposi's sarcoma.[6][7]
- Ferdinand Monoyer proposes the dioptre as a unit for measuring the optical power of a lens.[8]
[edit] Technology
- John Hopkinson proposes the group flash system for distinguishing lighthouses.[9]
- Rev. C. M. Ramus of Sussex, England, devizes the single-step hydroplane hull.[10]
[edit] Events
- October 1 - The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College begins its first academic session.
[edit] Publications
- May - The magazine Popular Science is first published in the United States.
- Charles Darwin publishes The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- May 6 - Willem de Sitter (d. 1934), mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
- October 4 - Ernest Fourneau (d. 1949), medicinal chemist.
[edit] Deaths
- April 2 - Samuel F. B. Morse (b. 1791), inventor.
- May 6 - George Robert Gray (b. 1808), zoologist.
- December 24 - William John Macquorn Rankine (b. 1820), physicist.
- Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (b. 1787), physician.
[edit] References
- ^ U.S. Patent 127,568.
- ^ "Yellowstone, the First National Park". http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/yehtml/yeabout.html.
- ^ U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 17, Chap. 24, pp. 32-33. "An Act to set apart a certain Tract of Land lying near the Head-waters of the Yellowstone River as a public Park." From The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 collection, Library of Congress.
- ^ Rice, A. L. (1999). "The Challenger Expedition". Understanding the Oceans: Marine Science in the Wake of HMS Challenger. London: Routledge. pp. 27–48. ISBN 978-1857287059. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F5agn3NSzEoC&pg=PA27.
- ^ a b Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Kaposi, Moriz (1872). "Idiopathisches multiples Pigmentsarkom der Haut". Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis 4: 265–73. Translated as: "Idiopathic Multiple Pigmented Sarcoma of the Skin" (PDF). CA: a cancer journal for clinicians 32 (6): 342–7. 1982. doi:10.3322/canjclin.32.6.342. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/canjclin.32.6.342/abstract. Retrieved 2011-03-25.
- ^ "Moriz Kohn Kaposi". Whonamedit?. http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/621.html. Retrieved 2011-03-25.
- ^ Monoyer, F. (1872). "Sur l'introduction du système métrique dans le numérotage des verres de lunettes et sur le choix d'une unité de réfraction". Annales d'Oculistiques (Paris) 68: 101.
- ^ Beare, T. H. (2004). "Hopkinson, John (1849–1898)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13758. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13758. Retrieved 2011-06-02. subscription or UK public library membership required
- ^ "The Evolution of the Hydroplane". Flight 6: 796. 1914-07-24. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1914/1914%20-%200796.html. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
