1890 in science
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The year 1890 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Biology
- Francis Galton announces a statistical demonstration of the uniqueness and classifiability of individual human fingerprints.[1]
- Jacques Loeb publishes his first major work on tropism, Der Heliotropismus der Thiere und seine Uebereinstimmung mit dem Heliotropismus der Pflanzen.
- Henry Luke Bolley at the new North Dakota Agricultural College isolates the organism responsible for potato scab and develops an effective treatment.
[edit] Chemistry
- Nikolai Menshutkin discovers that a tertiary amine can be converted into a quaternary ammonium salt by reaction with an alkyl halide – the Menshutkin reaction.[2][3]
[edit] Computer science
- June 1 - The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to record census returns using punched card input, a landmark in the history of computing hardware. Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM.
[edit] Earth sciences
- The United States city of Boise, Idaho, drills the first geothermal well.
[edit] Mathematics
- P. J. Heawood proves the five colour theorem.[4]
- Giuseppe Peano is the first to demonstrate a space-filling curve.[4]
[edit] Medicine
- Discovery by Emil von Behring and Kitasato Shibasaburō that an anti-toxin for immunizing people against diphtheria can be prepared by injecting diphtheria toxin into animals.[5]
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal publishes the first edition of Manual de Anatomia Pathologica General.
- Robert Koch publishes his postulates on the causal relationship between microbes and diseases.
- William James publishes Principles of Psychology.
[edit] Technology
- May - Herbert Akroyd Stuart, in collaboration with Charles Richard Binney and Richard Hornsby & Sons, files a British patent for Improvements in Engines Operated by the Explosion of Mixtures of Combustible Vapour or Gas and Air, the first successful design of hot bulb engine, which will be produced as the heavy-oil Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine.[6]
- October 9 - The first brief flight of Clément Ader's steam-powered fixed-wing aircraft Eole takes place in Satory, France. It flies uncontrolled approximately 50 m (160 ft) at a height of 20 cm, the first take-off of a powered airplane solely under its own power.[7][8][9]
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: Simon Newcomb
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Crawford Williamson
[edit] Births
- December 20 - Jaroslav Heyrovský (d. 1967), chemist
- December 21 - Hermann Joseph Muller (d. 1967), geneticist.
[edit] Deaths
- February 3 - Christoph Heinrich Buys-Ballot (b. 1817), meteorologist.
- August 30 - Marianne North (b. 1830), English botanist.
- December 26 - Heinrich Schliemann (b. 1822), German archaeologist.
[edit] References
- ^ Galton, Francis (1891). "The Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks – On Their Arrangement into Naturally Distinct Classes, the Permanence of the Papillary Ridges that Make Them, and the Resemblance of Their Classes to Ordinary Genera". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 182: 1–23. JSTOR 91733.
- ^ Menschutkin, N. (1890). "Beiträgen zur Kenntnis der Affinitätskoeffizienten der Alkylhaloide und der organischen Amine". Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie 5: 589.
- ^ Menschutkin, N. (1890). "Über die Affinitätskoeffizienten der Alkylhaloide und der Amine". Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie 6: 41.
- ^ a b Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). "Immunotherapy: past, present and future" (PDF). Nature Medicine 9 (3): 269–277. doi:10.1038/nm0303-269. PMID 12612576. http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v9/n3/full/nm0303-269.html&filetype=pdf.
- ^ British Patent 7146. "The Akroyd Oil Engine". Ray Hooley's - Ruston-Hornsby - Engine Pages. http://www.oldengine.org/members/ruston/History6.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-31.
- ^ Crouch, Tom D. "Clément Ader". Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/5780/Clement-Ader. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
- ^ Gray, Carroll (1998-2003). "Clement Ader 1841–1925". Flying Machines. http://www.flyingmachines.org/ader.html. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
- ^ Gibbs-Smith, Charles H. (1959). "Hops and Flights: A Roll Call of Early Powered Take-offs". Flight 75: 468. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1959/1959%20-%200937.html. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
