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Overview of the events of 1895 in science
The year 1895 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space sciences
Biology
Chemistry
Climatology
Ecology
Eugen Warming publishes
Plantesamfund (translated as Oecology of Plants , 1909) and founds the scientific discipline
ecology .
The first international meeting for the protection of birds is held in Paris.
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Mathematics
Medicine
Physics
Psychiatry
Technology
Other events
Awards
Births
January 11 –
Laurens Hammond (died
1973 ),
American inventor.
January 15 –
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (died 1973), Finnish winner of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
May 8 –
Lionel Whitby (died
1956 ),
English
haematologist ,
clinical pathologist ,
pharmacologist and army officer.
May 20 –
R. J. Mitchell (died
1937 ), English
aeronautical engineer .
May 31 – Asatour Sarafian, later
Oscar H. Banker (died
1979 ),
Armenian American inventor.
June 29 –
Dorothy Stuart Russell (died
1983 ), Australian-born British pathologist
October 19 –
Lewis Mumford (died
1990 ), American historian & philosopher of science.
October 22 –
Rolf Nevanlinna (died
1980 ),
Finnish
mathematician .
October 23 –
Hans Ferdinand Mayer (died 1980),
German
physicist .
October 30
December 2 –
W. Conway Pierce (died
1974 ), American
chemist .
December 24 –
Marguerite Williams (died
1991 ?), African American geologist.
Deaths
January 26 –
Arthur Cayley (born
1821 ),
English
mathematician .
April 11 –
Lothar Meyer (born
1830 ), German
chemist .
May 5 –
Carl Vogt (born
1817 ),
German scientist who published notable works in
zoology ,
geology and
physiology .
June 29 – Sir
Thomas Henry Huxley (born
1825 ), English
biologist .
August 10 –
Felix Hoppe-Seyler (born
1825 ), German
physiologist .
August 26 –
Friedrich Miescher (born
1844 ),
Swiss
biochemist .
September 24 –
Hermann Hellriegel (born
1831 ),
German
agricultural chemist who discovered the mechanism by which
leguminous plants assimilate the free
nitrogen of the atmosphere.
September 28 –
Louis Pasteur (born
1822 ),
French biologist.
December 27 –
Eivind Astrup (born
1871 ),
Norwegian
Arctic explorer.
References
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"Gov. Morton Signs the Bill Providing for a Zoological Garden in This City" .
The Sun . April 27, 1895. p. 7. Retrieved January 20, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
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Bruce, David (1895).
Preliminary Report on Tsetse Fly Disease or Nagana in Zululand . Durban, South Africa: Bennet & Davis.
OCLC
14776707 – via Internet Archive.
^ Duggan, A. J. (1977).
"Bruce and the African Trypanosomes" .
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene . 26 (5 Pt 2 Suppl): 1080–3.
doi :
10.4269/ajtmh.1977.26.1080 .
PMID
20787 .
^ Brandt, L W (1968). "Helium". In Hampel, Clifford A. (ed.).
The Encyclopedia of the Chemical Elements . New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. pp. 256–7.
ISBN
0-442-15598-0 – via
Open Library .
^
Munday P (1999). "Hillebrand, William Francis (12 Dec. 1853–7 Feb. 1925)". In Garrary JA, Carnes MC (eds.).
American National Biography . Vol. 10. Oxford University Press. p. 808 – via Internet Archive.
^ Ramsay, William (1895).
"On a Gas Showing the Spectrum of Helium, the Reputed Cause of D3 , one of the lines in the Coronal Spectrum. Preliminary Note" . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London . 58 (1): 65–67.
doi :
10.1098/rspl.1895.0006 .
^
Emsley, John (2001). "Helium".
Nature's Building Blocks (2002 reprint ed.).
Oxford University Press . p. 177.
ISBN
0-19-850341-5 – via
Open Library .
^ Langlet, N. A. (1895).
"Über das Atomgewicht des Heliums" [About the atomic weight of helium].
Zeitschrift für Anorganische Chemie (in German). 10 (1): 289–292.
doi :
10.1002/zaac.18950100130 – via
Zenodo .
^
Fischer, Emil ; Speier, Arthur (December 1895). "Darstellung der Ester" [Representation of the Esters].
Chemische Berichte . 28 (3): 3252–3258.
doi :
10.1002/cber.189502803176 .
^
"On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air Upon The Temperature of the Ground" .
The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science . April 1896.
^
"The Endangered Species Act – History Of Species Protection" . Science Encyclopedia . Library Index. Archived from
the original on 2013-07-01. Retrieved 2012-11-18 .
^ Korteweg, D. J.; de Vries, G. (1895).
"On the Change of Form of Long Waves Advancing in a Rectangular Canal, and on a New Type of Long Stationary Waves" .
The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science . 39 (240): 422–443.
doi :
10.1080/14786449508620739 .
^ Cantor, Georg (1895).
"Beiträge zur Begründung der transfiniten Mengenlehre (1)" .
Mathematische Annalen . 46 (4): 481–512.
doi :
10.1007/bf02124929 .
S2CID
177801164 . Archived from
the original on 2014-04-23.
^ Poincaré, Henri (1895).
"Analysis situs" . Journal de l'École Polytechnique . (2). 1 . Paris: 1–123.
^
"Report 12 of the Council on Scientific Affairs (A-97)" .
American Medical Association . 1997. Archived from
the original on 2009-06-14.
^
"Popov's Contribution to the Development of Wireless Communication, 1895" . IEEE Global History Network . Milestones.
IEEE . Retrieved 2013-02-23 .
^ Röntgen, W. (December 1895). "Eine neue Art von Strahlen". Sityzungs-Berichteder Physikalisch-medicinisch Gesellschaft zu Würzburg (9).
^ Chardère, B.; Borgé, G.; Borgé, M. (1985). Les Lumière (in French). Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts. p. 71.
ISBN
2-85047-068-6 .
^ "New "L" Road Opens".
Chicago Daily Tribune . 1895-05-07. p. 12.
^
"Cermak Road Bridge District" (PDF) . City of Chicago. 2003. p. 17. Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 31, 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-09 .
^ Tschöke, Helmut; Mollenhauer, Klaus; Maier, Rudolf, eds. (2018). Handbuch Dieselmotoren (8th ed.). Wiesbaden: Springer. p. 6.
ISBN
978-3-658-07696-2 .
^ Curry, Roger (2021). Engines of Change . p. 217.
^
"Electrical Bicycle" . Google Patents . 1895. Retrieved 2012-05-25 .
^ Morchin, William C.; Oman, Henry (2006).
Electric Bicycles . Hoboken: Wiley. p.
3 .
ISBN
978-0-471-67419-1 .
^ File:The Engineering and Mining Journal 1897-12-18- Vol 64 Iss 25 (IA sim engineering-and-mining-journal 1897-12-18 64 25).pdf
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"Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .