1882 in science
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The year 1882 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- September - Great Comet of 1882 sighted.[1]
[edit] Biology
- Robert Koch isolates the Tuberculosis bacillus.
- Élie Metchnikoff discovers phagocytosis.[2]
[edit] Chemistry
- Italian physicist Luigi Palmieri detects helium on Earth for the first time through its D3 spectral line when he analyzes the lava of Mount Vesuvius.[3]
[edit] Mathematics
- Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes proof that π is a transcendental number and that squaring the circle is consequently impossible.[4][5]
[edit] Medicine
- Vladimir Bekhterev publishes Provodiashchie puti mozga ("The Conduction Paths in the Brain and Spinal Cord"), beginning to note the role of the hippocampus in memory.
[edit] Technology
- April 29 - Werner von Siemens demonstrates his Electromote, the first form of trolleybus, in Berlin.
- June 6 - Henry W. Seeley patents the electric clothes iron in the United States.[6]
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: Arthur Cayley
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: Franz Ritter von Hauer
[edit] Births
- March 14 - Wacław Sierpiński (d. 1969), Polish mathematician.
- March 23 - Emmy Noether (d. 1969), German mathematician.
- June 17 - Harold Gillies (d. 1960), New Zealand-born plastic surgeon.
- July 21 - Herbert E. Ives (d. 1953), American optical engineer.
- September 30 - Johannes Hans Geiger (d. 1945), inventor of the Geiger counter.
- October 5 - Robert Goddard (d. 1945), American rocket scientist.
- December 11 - Max Born (d. 1970), physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1954.
- December 28 - Arthur Eddington (d. 1944), astrophysicist.
- Israel Aharoni (d. 1946), zoologist.
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Theodor Schwann (b. 1810), physiologist.
- April 19 - Charles Darwin (b. 1809), geologist and naturalist.
- September 23 - Friedrich Woehler (b. 1800), chemist.
- October 27 - Christian Heinrich von Nagel (b. 1803), geometer.
- November 20 - Henry Draper (b. 1837), doctor, astronomer.
- December 24
- Johann Benedict Listing (b. 1808), mathematician.
- Charles Vincent Walker (b. 1812), telegraph engineer.
[edit] References
- ^ Plummer, William Edward (March 1889). "The great comet of September 1882". The Observatory 12: 140–142. Bibcode 1889Obs....12..140P.
- ^ Petrunkevitch, Alexander (1920). "Russia’s Contribution to Science". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 23: 239.
- ^ Stewart, Alfred Walter (2008). Recent Advances in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry. BiblioBazaar, LLC. p. 201. ISBN 0-554-80513-8. http://books.google.com/?id=pIqhPFfDMXwC&pg=PA201.
- ^ Lindemann, F. (1882). "Über die Zahl π". Mathematische Annalen 20: 213–225. doi:10.1007/BF01446522. http://www.springerlink.com/content/n109018v5r748073/?p=0e89fa387fd94fd5a05e8abf026400d6&pi=3.
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. pp. 21, 81. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Patent no. 259,054. "Household Amenities and Appliances: Timeline of Their Arrival". PartSelect. http://www.partselect.ca/resources/Appliances-Timeline-Of-Their-Arrival.aspx. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
