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The year 1879 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy

British children's writer and amateur astronomer Agnes Giberne publishes the popular illustrated book Sun, Moon and Stars: Astronomy for Beginners which sells 24,000 copies on both sides of the Atlantic in twenty years.^[1]

Biology

April 26 – The National Park, later renamed the Royal National Park, is declared in New South Wales, Australia, the world's second oldest purposed national park (after Yellowstone in the United States), and the first to use the term "national park".
Jean Henri Fabre publishes the first of his Souvenirs entomologiques.
Heinrich Anton de Bary coins the term symbiosis in his monograph Die Erscheinung der Symbiose (Strasbourg).^[2]

Cartography

Peirce quincuncial projection developed by Charles Sanders Peirce.

Chemistry

January 2 – Publication of first issue of Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Per Teodor Cleve discovers the elements holmium and thulium.
Lars Fredrik Nilson discovers the element scandium.
Constantin Fahlberg working with Ira Remsen at Johns Hopkins University discovers saccharin.
Rodolphe Lindt invents the conching machine for use in chocolate manufacture.^[3]
Otto Schott (1851–1935) develops a glass containing Lithium. It was the first glass type that had a Homogeneity allowing spectrometric measurements.^[4]

Earth sciences

Vasily Dokuchaev introduces the concept of pedology, laying the foundations for the modern study of soil science.^[5]
Ferdinand André Fouqué publishes Santorin et ses éruptions, a significant text in volcanology.

History of science

Carl Schorlemmer publishes The Rise and Development of Organic Chemistry.

Mathematics

Charles L. Dodgson publishes Euclid and his Modern Rivals in London.^[6]
Gottlob Frege publishes Begriffsschrift, eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formelsprache des reinen Denkens ("Concept-Script: A Formal Language for Pure Thought Modeled on that of Arithmetic") in Halle, a significant text in the development of mathematical logic.
Felix Klein first describes the Grünbaum–Rigby configuration.^[7]

Medicine

British psychiatrist James Crichton-Browne publishes "On the weight of the brain and its component parts in the insane",^[8] a key paper in the neuropathology of insanity.^[9]
Viennese physician Felix von Winiwarter provides an early description of Thromboangiitis obliterans.^[10]

Meteorology

George Stokes perfects the Campbell–Stokes recorder (for sunshine).

Paleontology

Camptosaurus prestwichii found at Cumnor, near Oxford.

Pharmacology

Vassili von Anrep of the University of Würzburg demonstrate the analgesic properties of cocaine.^[11]

Physics

Edwin Hall discovers the Hall Effect.
Joseph Stefan originates the Stefan–Boltzmann law, stating that the total radiation from a black body is proportional to the fourth power of its thermodynamic temperature.^[12]

Psychology

Wilhelm Wundt creates the first laboratory of experimental psychology, at the University of Leipzig.

Technologie

February 3 – Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne (England) becomes the world's first public highway to be lit by the electric incandescent light bulb invented by Joseph Swan.^[13]
May 31 – Werner von Siemens demonstrates the first electric locomotive using an external power source at Berlin.
June 6 – William Denny and Brothers launch the world's first ocean-going ship to be built of mild steel, the SS Rotomahana, on the River Clyde in Scotland.^[14]
October 22 – Thomas Edison successfully tests a carbon filament thread in an incandescent light bulb.
A heavy oil engine is built by Jacob Morrison of Norton, County Durham, England.^[15]

Awards

Births

January 1 – Ernest Jones (died 1958), Welsh psychoanalyst.
February 1 – Henri Chrétien (died 1956), French astronomer and optical inventor.
February 22 – J. N. Brønsted (died 1947), Danish physical chemist.
March 8 – Otto Hahn (died 1968), German physicist and winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
March 10 – Wu Lien-teh (died 1960), Malayan Chinese physician.
March 14 – Albert Einstein (died 1955), German-born physicist and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.
May 28 – Milutin Milanković (died 1958), Serbian geophysicist.
June 3 – Raymond Pearl (died 1940), American biologist.
August 29 – May Smith (died 1968), English experimental psychologist.
October 9 – Max von Laue (died 1960), German physicist and winner of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Deaths

January 24 – Heinrich Geißler (born 1814), German scientific instrument maker.
March 3 – William Kingdon Clifford (born 1845), English geometer.
April 4 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (born 1803), Prussian physicist and climatologist.
April 16 – Peter Kosler (born 1824), Carniolan geographer and cartographer.
April 23 – Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti (born 1799), Italian botanist.
May 4 – William Froude (born 1810), English hydrodynamicist.
May 29 – Pierre Adolphe Piorry (born 1794), French physician.
August 26 – Édouard Chassaignac (born 1804), French surgeon.
November 5 – James Clerk Maxwell (born 1831), Scottish-born mathematician and physicist.

References

^ Chapman, Allan (1999). The Victorian Amateur Astronomer: Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920. Chichester: John Wiley. ISBN 0-471-96257-0.
^ Bates, Marston (1950). The Nature of Natural History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 125.
^ Klein, Christopher (2014-02-14). "The Sweet History of Chocolate". History. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
^ fsu.edu: Otto Schott (CV)
^ Dokuchaev, V.V. (1879). Short Historical Description and Critical Analysis of the More Important Soil Classifications. Trav. Soc. Nat. St. Petersburg 10: 64-67 (In Russian); Tchernozeme (terre noire) de la Russie d‘Europe. St. Petersburg: Société Impériale Libre Économique.
^ Wilson, Robin (2008). Lewis Carroll in Numberland. London: Allen Lane. pp. 91–95. ISBN 978-0-7139-9757-6.
^ Klein, Felix (1879). "Ueber die Transformation siebenter Ordnung der elliptischen Functionen". Mathematische Annalen. 14: 428–471. doi:10.1007/BF01677143.. Translated into English by Silvio Levy as "On the order-seven transformation of elliptic functions", The Eightfold Way, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, vol. 35, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 287–331, MR 1722419
^ Brain 1: 514-18; 2: 42-67
^ Compston, Alastair (2007). "On the weight of the brain and its component parts in the insane. By J. Crichton-Browne, MD, FRSE, Lord Chancellor's Visitor. Brain 1879: 1; 514–518 and 1879: 2; 42–67". Brain. 130 (3): 599–601. doi:10.1093/brain/awm020.
^ von Winiwarter, F. (1879). "Ueber eine eigenthumliche Form von Endarteriitis und Endophlebitis mit Gangran des Fusses". Archiv für Klinische Chirurgie. 23: 202–26.
^ Yentis, S. M.; Vlassakov, K. V. (1999). "Vassily von Anrep, forgotten pioneer of regional anesthesia". Anesthesiology. 90 (3): 890–5. doi:10.1097/00000542-199903000-00033. PMID 10078692.
^ "Über die Beziehung zwischen der Wärmestrahlung und der Temperatur" in Bulletin of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.
^ "1879". Co-Curate. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
^ "SS Rotomahana". Clydebuilt. Archived from the original on 2005-03-12. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
^ "Who Built the First Oil Engine?". Stationary Engine. 190: 5. December 1989. Acquired for collection of The Henry Ford.
^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.

[1] Chapman, Allan (1999). The Victorian Amateur Astronomer: Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920. Chichester: John Wiley. ISBN 0-471-96257-0.

[2] Bates, Marston (1950). The Nature of Natural History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 125.

[3] Klein, Christopher (2014-02-14). "The Sweet History of Chocolate". History. Retrieved 2014-03-03.

[4] su.edu: Otto Schott (CV)

[5] Dokuchaev, V.V. (1879). Short Historical Description and Critical Analysis of the More Important Soil Classifications. Trav. Soc. Nat. St. Petersburg 10: 64-67 (In Russian); Tchernozeme (terre noire) de la Russie d‘Europe. St. Petersburg: Société Impériale Libre Économique.

[6] Wilson, Robin (2008). Lewis Carroll in Numberland. London: Allen Lane. pp. 91–95. ISBN 978-0-7139-9757-6.

[7] Klein, Felix (1879). "Ueber die Transformation siebenter Ordnung der elliptischen Functionen". Mathematische Annalen. 14: 428–471. doi:10.1007/BF01677143.. Translated into English by Silvio Levy as "On the order-seven transformation of elliptic functions", The Eightfold Way, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, vol. 35, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 287–331, MR 1722419

[8] Brain 1: 514-18; 2: 42-67

[9] Compston, Alastair (2007). "On the weight of the brain and its component parts in the insane. By J. Crichton-Browne, MD, FRSE, Lord Chancellor's Visitor. Brain 1879: 1; 514–518 and 1879: 2; 42–67". Brain. 130 (3): 599–601. doi:10.1093/brain/awm020.

[10] von Winiwarter, F. (1879). "Ueber eine eigenthumliche Form von Endarteriitis und Endophlebitis mit Gangran des Fusses". Archiv für Klinische Chirurgie. 23: 202–26.

[11] Yentis, S. M.; Vlassakov, K. V. (1999). "Vassily von Anrep, forgotten pioneer of regional anesthesia". Anesthesiology. 90 (3): 890–5. doi:10.1097/00000542-199903000-00033. PMID 10078692.

[12] "Über die Beziehung zwischen der Wärmestrahlung und der Temperatur" in Bulletin of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.

[13] "1879". Co-Curate. Retrieved 2022-03-21.

[14] "SS Rotomahana". Clydebuilt. Archived from the original on 2005-03-12. Retrieved 2014-04-14.

[15] "Who Built the First Oil Engine?". Stationary Engine. 190: 5. December 1989. Acquired for collection of The Henry Ford.

[16] "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.

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 The year '''1879 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events, listed below.
 ==Astronomy==
-* British children's writer and amateur astronomer [[Agnes Giberne]] publishes the popular illustrated book ''Sun, Moon and Stars: Astronomy for Beginners'' which sells 24,000 copies on both sides of the [[Atlantic]] in twenty years.<ref>{{cite book|first=Allan|last=Chapman|title=The Victorian Amateur Astronomer: Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920|location=Chichester|publisher=John Wiley|year=1999|isbn=0471962570}}</ref>
+* British children's writer and amateur astronomer [[Agnes Giberne]] publishes the popular illustrated book ''Sun, Moon and Stars: Astronomy for Beginners'' which sells 24,000 copies on both sides of the [[Atlantic]] in twenty years.<ref>{{cite book|first=Allan|last=Chapman|title=The Victorian Amateur Astronomer: Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920|location=Chichester|publisher=John Wiley|year=1999|isbn=0-471-96257-0}}</ref>
 ==Biology==
+* April 26 – The National Park, later renamed the [[Royal National Park]], is declared in [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]], the world's second oldest purposed national park (after [[Yellowstone National Park|Yellowstone]] in the [[United States]]), and the first to use the term "[[national park]]".
 * [[Jean Henri Fabre]] publishes the first of his ''Souvenirs entomologiques''.
-* [[Heinrich Anton de Bary]] coins the term ''[[symbiosis]]'' in his monograph ''Die Erscheinung der Symbiose'' (Strasbourg).<ref>{{cite book|last=Bates|first=Marston|title=The Nature of Natural History|page=125|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|location=New York|year=1950}}</ref>
+* [[Heinrich Anton de Bary]] coins the term ''[[symbiosis]]'' in his monograph ''Die Erscheinung der Symbiose'' (Strasbourg).<ref>{{cite book|last=Bates|first=Marston|title=The Nature of Natural History|url=https://archive.org/details/natureofnaturalh0000unse|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/natureofnaturalh0000unse/page/125 125]|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|location=New York|year=1950}}</ref>
+==Cartography==
+* [[Peirce quincuncial projection]] developed by [[Charles Sanders Peirce]].
 ==Chemistry==
-* January 2 - Publication of first issue of ''[[Journal of the American Chemical Society]]''.
+* January 2 – Publication of first issue of ''[[Journal of the American Chemical Society]]''.
 * [[Per Teodor Cleve]] discovers the elements [[holmium]] and [[thulium]].
 * [[Lars Fredrik Nilson]] discovers the element [[scandium]].
+* [[Constantin Fahlberg]] working with [[Ira Remsen]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]] discovers [[saccharin]].
+* [[Rodolphe Lindt]] invents the [[conching]] machine for use in chocolate manufacture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/news/hungry-history/the-sweet-history-of-chocolate|date=2014-02-14|title=The Sweet History of Chocolate|first=Christopher|last=Klein|publisher=[[History (U.S. TV channel)|History]]|access-date=2014-03-03}}</ref>
+* [[Otto Schott]] (1851–1935) develops a glass containing [[Lithium]]. It was the first glass type that had a [[Homogeneity (physics)|Homogeneity]] allowing [[spectrometer|spectrometric measurements]].<ref>[[Florida State University|fsu.edu]]:
+[https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/schott.html ''Otto Schott''] (CV)</ref>
 ==Earth sciences==
-* [[Vasily Dokuchaev]] introduces the concept of [[pedology]], laying the foundations for the study of [[soil science]].<ref>Dokuchaev, V.V. (1879). Short Historical Description and Critical Analysis of the More Important Soil Classifications. ''Trav. Soc. Nat. St. Petersburg'' '''10''': 64-67 (In Russian); ''Tchernozeme (terre noire) de la Russie d‘Europe''. St. Petersburg: Société Impériale Libre Économique.</ref>
+* [[Vasily Dokuchaev]] introduces the concept of [[pedology]], laying the foundations for the modern study of [[soil science]].<ref>Dokuchaev, V.V. (1879). Short Historical Description and Critical Analysis of the More Important Soil Classifications. ''Trav. Soc. Nat. St. Petersburg'' '''10''': 64-67 (In Russian); ''Tchernozeme (terre noire) de la Russie d‘Europe''. St. Petersburg: Société Impériale Libre Économique.</ref>
+* [[Ferdinand André Fouqué]] publishes ''[[Santorini|Santorin]] et ses éruptions'', a significant text in [[volcanology]].
 ==History of science==
-* [[Carl Schorlemmer]] publishes [http://books.google.com/books?id=eYwEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Rise+and+Development+of+Organic+Chemistry&lr=&as_brr=1 ''The Rise and Development of Organic Chemistry''].
+* [[Carl Schorlemmer]] publishes [https://archive.org/details/riseanddevelopm01schogoog <!-- quote=The Rise and Development of Organic Chemistry. --> ''The Rise and Development of Organic Chemistry''].
 ==Mathematics==
-* [[Lewis Carroll|Charles L. Dodgson]] publishes ''[[Euclid and his Modern Rivals]]'' in [[London]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Lewis Carroll in Numberland|first=Robin|last=Wilson|authorlink=Robin Wilson (mathematician)|location=London|publisher=Allen Lane|year=2008| isbn=978-0-71399-757-6|pages=91–95}}</ref>
+* [[Lewis Carroll|Charles L. Dodgson]] publishes ''[[Euclid and his Modern Rivals]]'' in London.<ref>{{cite book|title=Lewis Carroll in Numberland|first=Robin|last=Wilson|authorlink=Robin Wilson (mathematician)|location=London|publisher=Allen Lane|year=2008| isbn=978-0-7139-9757-6|pages=91–95}}</ref>
+* [[Gottlob Frege]] publishes ''[[Begriffsschrift]], eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formelsprache des reinen Denkens'' ("Concept-Script: A Formal Language for Pure Thought Modeled on that of Arithmetic") in Halle, a significant text in the development of [[mathematical logic]].
+* [[Felix Klein]] first describes the [[Grünbaum–Rigby configuration]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Klein|first=Felix|doi=10.1007/BF01677143|journal=[[Mathematische Annalen]]|pages=428–471|title=Ueber die Transformation siebenter Ordnung der elliptischen Functionen|url=https://eudml.org/doc/156835|volume=14|year=1879}}. Translated into English by Silvio Levy as {{citation|contribution=On the order-seven transformation of elliptic functions|mr=1722419|pages=287–331|publisher=Cambridge University Press|series=Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications|title=The Eightfold Way|volume=35|year=1999}}</ref>
 ==Medicine==
-* [[James Crichton-Browne]] publishes "On the weight of the brain and its component parts in the insane",<ref>''[[Brain (journal)|Brain]]'' [http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/4/504.full.pdf+html '''1''': 514-18]; [http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/1/42.full.pdf+html '''2''': 42-67]</ref> a key paper in the [[neuropathology]] of [[insanity]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Alastair|last=Compston|title=On the weight of the brain and its component parts in the insane. By J. Crichton-Browne, MD, FRSE, Lord Chancellor's Visitor. Brain 1879: 1; 514–518 and 1879: 2; 42–67|url=http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/130/3/599.full|journal=Brain|volume=130|year=2007|pages=599–601|doi=10.1093/brain/awm020|issue=3}}</ref>
+* British psychiatrist [[James Crichton-Browne]] publishes "On the weight of the brain and its component parts in the insane",<ref>''[[Brain (journal)|Brain]]'' [https://archive.today/20120712111711/http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/4/504.full.pdf+html '''1''': 514-18]; [https://archive.today/20120711212116/http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/1/42.full.pdf+html '''2''': 42-67]</ref> a key paper in the [[neuropathology]] of [[insanity]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Alastair|last=Compston|title=On the weight of the brain and its component parts in the insane. By J. Crichton-Browne, MD, FRSE, Lord Chancellor's Visitor. Brain 1879: 1; 514–518 and 1879: 2; 42–67|journal=Brain|volume=130|year=2007|pages=599–601|doi=10.1093/brain/awm020|issue=3|doi-access=free}}</ref>
+* Viennese physician [[Felix von Winiwarter]] provides an early description of ''[[Thromboangiitis obliterans]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|last=von Winiwarter|first=F.|title=Ueber eine eigenthumliche Form von Endarteriitis und Endophlebitis mit Gangran des Fusses|journal=Archiv für Klinische Chirurgie|volume=23|pages=202–26|year=1879}}</ref>
+==Meteorology==
+* [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet|George Stokes]] perfects the [[Campbell–Stokes recorder]] (for sunshine).
 ==Paleontology==
 * ''[[Camptosaurus]] prestwichii'' found at [[Cumnor]], near [[Oxford]].
+==Pharmacology==
+* Vassili von Anrep of the [[University of Würzburg]] demonstrate the [[analgesic]] properties of [[cocaine]].<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Yentis, S. M. |author2=Vlassakov, K. V. |title=Vassily von Anrep, forgotten pioneer of regional anesthesia|journal=Anesthesiology|volume=90|issue=3|pages=890–5|year=1999|pmid=10078692|doi=10.1097/00000542-199903000-00033}}</ref>
 ==Physics==
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 ==Technology==
+* February 3 – Mosley Street in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] (England) becomes the world's first public highway to be lit by the electric [[incandescent light bulb]] invented by [[Joseph Swan]].<ref>{{cite web|title=1879|work=Co-Curate|url=https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/1879/history/|accessdate=2022-03-21}}</ref>
-* May 31 - [[Werner von Siemens]] demonstrates the first [[electric locomotive]] using an external power source at Berlin.
+* May 31 – [[Werner von Siemens]] demonstrates the first [[electric locomotive]] using an external power source at Berlin.
-* October 22 - [[Thomas Edison]] successfully tests a [[carbon]] filament thread in an [[incandescent light bulb]].
+* June 6 – [[William Denny and Brothers]] launch the world's first ocean-going ship to be built of [[mild steel]], the SS ''Rotomahana'', on the [[River Clyde]] in Scotland.<ref>{{cite web|title=SS Rotomahana|work=Clydebuilt|url=http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=10503|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050312163620/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=10503|url-status=dead|archive-date=2005-03-12|accessdate=2014-04-14}}</ref>
+* October 22 – [[Thomas Edison]] successfully tests a [[carbon]] filament thread in an [[incandescent light bulb]].
+* A [[heavy oil engine]] is built by Jacob Morrison of [[Norton, County Durham]], England.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Who Built the First Oil Engine?|journal=Stationary Engine|volume=190|date=December 1989|page=5}} Acquired for collection of [[The Henry Ford]].</ref>
 ==Awards==
+* [[Copley Medal]]: [[Rudolf Clausius]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Copley Medal {{!}} British scientific award |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=23 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
-*[[Copley Medal]]: [[Rudolf Clausius]]
-*[[Wollaston Medal]]: [[Bernhard Studer]]
+* [[Wollaston Medal]]: [[Bernhard Studer]]
 ==Births==
-* January 1 - [[Ernest Jones]] (d. [[1958 in science|1958]]), [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[psychoanalyst]].
+* January 1 – [[Ernest Jones]] (died [[1958 in science|1958]]), [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[psychoanalyst]].
-* February 22 - [[J. N. Brønsted]] (d. [[1947 in science|1947]]), physical [[chemist]].
+* February 1 – [[Henri Chrétien]] (died [[1956 in science|1956]]), [[French people|French]] [[astronomer]] and optical inventor.
-* March 8 - [[Otto Hahn]] (d. [[1968 in science|1968]]), German [[physicist]] who received the 1944 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].
+* February 22 – [[J. N. Brønsted]] (died [[1947 in science|1947]]), [[Danes|Danish]] [[physical chemist]].
-* March 14 - [[Albert Einstein]] (d. [[1955 in science|1955]]), scientist and winner of the 1921 [[Nobel Prize in physics]].
+* March 8 – [[Otto Hahn]] (died [[1968 in science|1968]]), [[Germans|German]] [[physicist]] and winner of the 1944 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].
-* May 28 - [[Milutin Milanković]] (d. [[1958 in science|1958]]), [[geophysicist]].
+* March 10 – [[Wu Lien-teh]] (died [[1960 in science|1960]]), Malayan Chinese [[physician]].
+* March 14 – [[Albert Einstein]] (died [[1955 in science|1955]]), German-born physicist and winner of the 1921 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
+* May 28 – [[Milutin Milanković]] (died [[1958 in science|1958]]), [[Serbians|Serbian]] [[geophysicist]].
+* June 3 – [[Raymond Pearl]] (died [[1940 in science|1940]]), [[Americans|American]] [[biologist]].
+* August 29 – [[May Smith (psychologist)|May Smith]] (died [[1968 in science|1968]]), [[English people|English]] [[experimental psychologist]].
+* October 9 – [[Max von Laue]] (died [[1960 in science|1960]]), German physicist and winner of the 1914 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
 ==Deaths==
-* March 3 - [[William Kingdon Clifford]] (b. [[1845 in science|1845]]), [[geometer]].
+* January 24 – [[Heinrich Geißler]] (born [[1814 in science|1814]]), German scientific instrument maker.
-* April 16 - [[Peter Kozler]] (b. [[1824 in science|1824]]), [[geographer]] and [[cartographer]].
+* March 3 – [[William Kingdon Clifford]] (born [[1845 in science|1845]]), English [[geometer]].
-* May 4 - [[William Froude]] (b. [[1810 in science|1810]]), hydrodynamicist.
+* April 4 – [[Heinrich Wilhelm Dove]] (born [[1803 in science|1803]]), [[Prussia]]n physicist and climatologist.
-* November 5 - [[James Clerk Maxwell]] (b. [[1831 in science|1831]]), [[mathematician]] and [[physicist]].
+* April 16 – [[Peter Kosler]] (born [[1824 in science|1824]]), [[Carniola]]n [[geographer]] and [[cartographer]].
+* April 23 – [[Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti]] (born [[1799 in science|1799]]), Italian botanist.
+* May 4 – [[William Froude]] (born [[1810 in science|1810]]), English hydrodynamicist.
+* May 29 – [[Pierre Adolphe Piorry]] (born [[1794 in science|1794]]), French physician.
+* August 26 – [[Édouard Chassaignac]] (born [[1804 in science|1804]]), French surgeon.
+* November 5 – [[James Clerk Maxwell]] (born [[1831 in science|1831]]), [[Scottish people|Scottish]]-born [[mathematician]] and [[physicist]].
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