1875 in science
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The year 1875 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Chemistry
- Gallium is discovered spectroscopically by French chemist Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Later this year he obtains the free metal by electrolysis of its hydroxide and names it. This is the first of Dmitri Mendeleev's predicted elements to be identified.[1][2][3]
[edit] Medicine
- The weekly medical journal Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift is established in Germany by Paul Börner.[4]
[edit] Metrology
- May 20 - International Bureau of Weights and Measures established.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 14 - Albert Schweitzer (d. 1965), medical missionary.
- February 4 - Ludwig Prandtl (d. 1953), physicist.
- June 28 - Henri Lebesgue (d. 1941), mathematician.
- July 26 - Carl Jung (d. 1961), psychiatrist.
- October 23 - Gilbert N. Lewis (d. 1946), chemist; first to isolate deuterium.
[edit] Deaths
- February 22 - Charles Lyell (b. 1797), geologist.
- March 7 - John Edward Gray (b. 1800), taxonomist.
- March 31 - Friedrich Julius Richelot (b. 1808), mathematician.
- April 11 - Heinrich Schwabe (b. 1789), astronomer.
- October 19 - Charles Wheatstone (b. 1802), inventor.
- November 27 - Richard Carrington (b. 1826), astronomer.
[edit] References
- ^ de Boisbaudran, Lecoq. "Caractères chimiques et spectroscopiques d'un nouveau métal, le gallium, découvert dans une blende de la mine de Pierrefitte, vallée d'Argelès (Pyrénées)". Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences 81: 493. doi:10.1002/andp.18762351216. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3038w/f490.table. Retrieved 2008-09-23.
- ^ Weeks, Mary Elvira (1932). "The discovery of the elements. XIII. Some elements predicted by Mendeleeff". Journal of Chemical Education 9 (9): 1605–1619. doi:10.1021/ed009p1605.
- ^ Ball, Philip (2002). The Ingredients: a Guided Tour of the Elements. Oxford University Press. p. 105. ISBN 0-19-284100-9.
- ^ Staehr, C. (September 1999). "Dr. Paul Börner, founder of the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift" (in German). Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 124 (38): 1119–20. PMID 10576968.
