1896 in science
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The year 1896 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Mathematics
- The prime number theorem on the distribution of primes is proved.[1]
- Charles L. Dodgson publishes the first part of Symbolic Logic.
- Karl Pearson publishes significant contributions to correlation and regression.[1]
[edit] Microbiology
- Ernest Duchesne discovers the antibiotic properties of penicillin as part of his doctoral research, but this is not followed up at this time.
[edit] Physics
- March 1 - French physicist Henri Becquerel discovers the principle of radioactive decay when he exposes photographic plates to uranium.
[edit] Physiology and medicine
- Antoine Marfan first describes the symptoms of Marfan syndrome.[2][3][4]
- An improved sphygmomanometer, for the measurement of blood pressure, is described by Scipione Riva-Rocci.[5]
[edit] Technology
- Thomas Ellis Brown produces an innovative design of rolling bascule bridge for Brooklyn.[6]
- Gottlieb Daimler produces the first truck.[7]
- December 11 - William Preece introduces Guglielmo Marconi's work in wireless telegraphy to the general public at a lecture, "Telegraphy without Wires", at the Toynbee Hall in London.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 3 - Jay Laurence Lush (d. 1982), American livestock geneticist.
- February 2 - Kazimierz Kuratowski (d. 1980), Polish mathematician.
- February 14 - Arthur Milne (d. 1950), English space physicist.
- March 29 - Wilhelm Ackermann (d. 1962), German mathematician.
- June 1 - Shintaro Uda (d. 1976), Japanese electrical engineer.
- July 16 - Otmar von Verschuer (d. 1969), German eugenicist.
- August 15 - Gerty Cori (née Radnitz) (d. 1957), Prague-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
[edit] Deaths
- June 23 - Joseph Prestwich (b. 1812), English geologist.
- July 13 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (b. 1829), organic chemist.
- August 10 - Otto Lilienthal (b. 1848), aviation pioneer.
- September 18 - Hippolyte Fizeau (b. 1819), physicist.
- October 21 - James Henry Greathead (b. 1844), British civil engineer.
- November 3 - Eugen Baumann (b. 1846), chemist.
- November 22 - George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. (b. 1859), American civil engineer.
- December 10 - Alfred Nobel (b. 1833), inventor.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Marfan, Antoine (1896). "Un cas de déformation congénitale des quartre membres, plus prononcée aux extrémitiés, caractérisée par l'allongement des os avec un certain degré d'amincissement". Bulletins et memoires de la Société medicale des hôspitaux de Paris 13 (3rd series): 220–226.
- ^ "Antoine Bernard-Jean Marfan". Whonamedit?. http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/972.html. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
- ^ "Marfan Syndrome". Johns Hopkins Medicine. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heart_vascular_institute/conditions_treatments/conditions/marfan_syndrome.html. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
- ^ Booth, Jeremy (1977). "A short history of blood pressure measurement". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 70 (11): 793–9. PMC 1543468. PMID 341169. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1543468/. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ^ "Notable Bridge Designers and Builders of Connecticut". Connecticut's Historic Highway Bridges. http://www.past-inc.org/historic-bridges/Design-right.html. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
- ^ "Truck History". About.com. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltruck.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
