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Overview of the events of 1874 in science
The year 1874 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Chemistry
Exploration
History of science
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience
Physics
Psychology
Franz Brentano publishes Psychologie vom Empirischen Standpunkte (Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint)
Technology
Awards
Births
January 22 –
Leonard Eugene Dickson (died
1954 ), American
mathematician
February 2 –
Ernest Shackleton (died
1922 ), Anglo-Irish Antarctic
explorer
April 25 –
Guglielmo Marconi (died
1937 ), Italian
inventor
September 12 –
Redcliffe N. Salaman (died
1955 ), English
botanist
September 26 –
Oakes Ames (died
1950 ), American botanist
October 13 –
Kiyotsugu Hirayama (died
1943 ), Italian
astronomer
November 27 –
Chaim Weizmann (died
1952 ), Russian-born
chemist and first
President of Israel
November 29 –
António Egas Moniz (died
1955 ), Portuguese neurologist, winner of the 1949
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
December 6 –
Elizabeth Laird (died
1969 ), Canadian
physicist
December 28 –
Arthur Schüller (died
1957 ), Austrian-born
neuroradiologist
Deaths
January 16 –
Max Schultze (born
1825 ), German
physiologist
January 24 –
Johann Philipp Reis (born
1834 ), German physicist and inventor
February 17 –
Adolphe Quetelet (born
1796 ), Belgian mathematician and astronomer
February 19 –
Carl Ernst Bock (born
1809 ), German
physician and
anatomist
March 3 –
Forbes Winslow (born
1810 ), English
psychiatrist
March 14 –
Johann Heinrich von Mädler (born
1794 ), German astronomer
March 28 –
Peter Andreas Hansen (born
1795 ), Danish-born German astronomer
April 13 –
James Bogardus (born
1800 ), American inventor
November 21 –
Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (born 1800), Scottish-born
naturalist
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ISBN
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The Foundations of Stereo Chemistry: Memoirs by Pasteur, van 't Hoff, Lebel and Wislicenus . New York: American Book Co. 1901.
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The Last Great Quest . Oxford University Press. pp.
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ISBN
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ISBN
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^ Johnson, Phillip E. (1972). "The Genesis and Development of Set Theory". The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal . 3 (1): 55–62.
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Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (2000). The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870–1940 . Princeton University Press.
ISBN
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^ Cooke, Roger (1984).
The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya . New York: Springer-Verlag.
ISBN
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The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Volume 3; 1874-1879 , Cambridge University Press,
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0-521-25627-5 , p. 148: "I have just finished a clay model of a fancy surface, showing the solid, liquid, and gaseous states, and the continuity of liquid and gaseous states." (letter to
Thomas Andrews , November 1874).
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