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Overview of the events of 1850 in science
The year 1850 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Chemistry
Mathematics
Medicine
Meteorology
Physics
Technology
Institutions
Awards
Births
January 5 – Sidney Browne (died - 1941 ), British military nurse.
January 15 (January 3 O.S. ) – Sofia Kovalevskaya (died 1891 ), Russian -born mathematician.
January 24 – Hermann Ebbinghaus (died 1909 ), German psychologist.
January 29 – Edmond Nocard (died 1903 ), French veterinarian and microbiologist .
February 15 – Sophie Bryant (died 1922 ), Irish -born mathematician and educationalist.
March 31 – Charles Walcott (died 1927 ), American paleontologist.
April 10 - Mary Emilie Holmes (died 1906 ), American geologist and educator.
May 18 – Oliver Heaviside (died 1925 ), English physicist.
May 21 – Giuseppe Mercalli (died 1914 ), Italian volcanologist .
May 23 – George Claridge Druce (died 1932 ), English botanist.
June 6 – Karl Ferdinand Braun (died 1918 ), German-born physicist.
August 30 – Charles Richet (died 1935 ), French physiologist, Nobel Prize winner.
Deaths
References
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^ Stokes, G. G. (1856). "On the numerical calculation of a class of definite integrals and infinite series" . Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society . 9 (1): 166–188.
^ "Query VI". The Lady's and Gentleman's Diary .
^ Tahta, Dick (2006). The Fifteen Schoolgirls . Cambridge: Black Apollo Press. ISBN 1-900355-48-5 .
^ London, Edinburgh & Dublin Philosophical Magazine 37 (1850) p. 369 (OED ).
^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know . London: Quercus. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8 .
^ Evans, Alun (2001). "Benjamin Guy Babington: Founding President of the London Epidemiological Society" . International Journal of Epidemiology . 30 (2): 226–230. doi :10.1093/ije/30.2.226 . PMID 11369720 . Retrieved 2012-02-07 .
^ "History" . Central Mental Hospital Carers. Retrieved 2014-11-22 .
^ Clausius, R. (1850). "Über die bewegende Kraft der Wärme, pt I" . Annalen der Physik . 79 : 368–397. Bibcode :1850AnP...155..368C . doi :10.1002/andp.18501550306 . hdl :2027/uc1.$b242250 . Retrieved 2011-04-26 . "Pt II" . ib . 155 : 500–524. Bibcode :1850AnP...155..500C . doi :10.1002/andp.18501550403 . hdl :2027/uc1.$b242250 . English translation as "On the Moving Force of Heat, and the Laws regarding the Nature of Heat itself which are deducible therefrom" . Philosophical Magazine . 2 : 1–21, 102–119. 1851. Retrieved 2011-04-26 .
^ Burke, James (1978). Connections . London: Macmillan. p. 240. ISBN 0-333-24827-9 .
^ Trachtenberg, Marvin; Hyman, Isabelle (1986). Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism – the Western tradition . London: Academy Editions. p. 478. ISBN 0856708992 .