1876 in science
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The year 1876 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Biology
- Robert Koch demonstrates that Bacillus anthracis is the source of of anthrax, the first bacterium conclusively shown to cause disease.[1]
[edit] Exploration
- May 24 - End of the Challenger expedition.[2]
[edit] Mathematics
- Édouard Lucas demonstrates that 127 is a Mersenne prime, the largest that will be recorded for seventy-five years.[3]
[edit] Medicine
- David Ferrier publishes The Functions of the Brain.
- William Macewen demonstrates clinical diagnosis of the site of brain tumors and performs the first successful intercranial surgery.
- Patrick Manson begins studying filariasis infection in humans.
[edit] Technology
- Nikolaus Otto builds the first successful four-stroke engine using the Otto cycle.
[edit] Institutions
- October 4 - First classes begin at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.[4]
- Elizabeth Bragg becomes the first woman to graduate with a civil engineering degree in the United States, from University of California, Berkeley.[5]
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 23 - Otto Diels (d. 1954), Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.
- February 15 - E. H. "Chinese" Wilson (d. 1930), plant collector.
- April 22 - Robert Bárány (d. 1936), Nobel Prize winner in medicine.
- June 13 - William Sealy Gosset (d. 1937), statistician.
- November 9 - Hideyo Noguchi (d. 1928), bacteriologist.
[edit] Deaths
- November 26 - Karl Ernst von Baer (b. 1792), naturalist.
[edit] References
- ^ Koch, R. (1876). "Die Ätiologie der Milzbrand-Krankheit, begründet auf die Entwicklungsgeschichte des Bacillus anthracis". Cohns Beitrage zur Biologie der Pflanzen 2 (2): 277–310. http://edoc.rki.de/documents/rk/508-5-26/PDF/5-26.pdf. Retrieved 2011-05-31.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Caldwell, Chris. "The Largest Known Prime by Year: A Brief History". http://primes.utm.edu/notes/by_year.html. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
- ^ Dethloff, Henry C. "Texas A&M University". The Handbook of Texas Online (Texas State Historical Association). http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/TT/kct8.html. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
- ^ "WEP Milestones". Berkeley Engineering. University of California, Berkeley. http://coe.berkeley.edu/students/bpi/jmep/milestones.html. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
