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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
^ 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 .