Overview of the events of 1850 in science
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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
- ^ Reynolds, John W. (1850). "XV.—On "propylene," a new hydrocarbon of the series C n H n". Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society. 3 (2): 111–120. doi:10.1039/QJ8510300111.
- ^ Wilson, David B., ed. (1990). The Correspondence between Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, Volume 1: 1846–1869. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. pp. 96–97. ISBN 9780521328319.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.$b242250. Retrieved 2011-04-26."Pt II". Annalen der Physik. 155: 500–524. Bibcode:1850AnP...155..500C. doi:10.1002/andp.18501550403. hdl:2027/uc1.$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.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ "The Geological Society of London – Wollaston Medal". www.geolsoc.org.uk. Retrieved 23 July 2020.