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Overview of the events of 1855 in science
The year 1855 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Cartography
Chemistry
Earth sciences
Exploration
Medicine
Paleontology
Physics
Technology
Institutions
Publications
Awards
Births
January 5 –
King Camp Gillette (died
1932 ),
American
inventor .
January 21 –
John Browning (died
1926 ), American inventor.
January 28 –
William Seward Burroughs (died
1898 ), American inventor of the
adding machine .
March 13 –
Percival Lowell (died
1916 ), American
astronomer .
May 12 –
Oskar von Miller (died
1934 ),
German
electrical engineer and founder of the
Deutsches Museum .
May 29 –
David Bruce (died
1931 ), Australian-born
British
microbiologist .
November 5 –
Léon Teisserenc de Bort (died
1913 ),
French
meteorologist .
November 7 –
Edwin Hall (died
1938 ), American
physicist , discoverer of the "
Hall effect ".
Stephen Paget (died
1926 ), English surgeon.
Deaths
February 23 –
Carl Friedrich Gauss (born
1777 ),
German
mathematician .
February 27 –
Bryan Donkin (born
1768 ),
English engineer and inventor.
March 20 –
Joseph Aspdin (born
1778 ), English inventor.
April 13 –
Henry De la Beche (born
1796 ), English
geologist .
June 7 –
Friederike Lienig (born
1790 ),
Latvian entomologist.
June 29 –
John Gorrie (born
1803 ),
Scottish American
physician and inventor.
July 6 –
Andrew Crosse (born
1784 ), English 'gentleman scientist', pioneer experimenter in electricity.
July 8 –
William Parry (born
1790 ), English
Arctic
explorer .
October 7 –
François Magendie (born
1783 ), French
physiologist .
December 6 –
William John Swainson (born
1789 ), English
naturalist .
References
^ Wallace, Alfred Russel.
"On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species" . Annals and Magazine of Natural History . Second Series. 16 .
^ Virchow, R. Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin 8 (1855).
^ Lagunoff, David (2002). "A Polish, Jewish Scientist in 19th-Century Prussia".
Science . 298 (5602): 2331.
doi :
10.1126/science.1080726 .
PMID
12493897 .
^ At
Glasgow meeting of
British Association for the Advancement of Science .
^ Gaedcke, F. (1855).
"Ueber das Erythroxylin, dargestellt aus den Blättern des in Südamerika cultivirten Strauches Erythroxylon Coca" (PDF) .
Archiv der Pharmazie . 132 (2): 141–150.
doi :
10.1002/ardp.18551320208 .
^ Wurtz, Adolphe (1855).
"Sur une nouvelle classe de radicaux organiques" .
Annales de chimie et de physique . 44 : 275–312. Retrieved 2012-02-07 .
^
"Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (1816–1885)" . Picture History . Picture History LLC. 2003. Archived from
the original on 2007-07-07. Retrieved 2007-03-24 .
^ Thorez, Jacques; Dreesen, Roland; Streel, Maurice (2006).
"Frasnian" . Geologica Belgica . 9 : 27–45. Retrieved 2013-03-16 . [
permanent dead link ]
^ Seacole, Mary (1858). Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands . London: Blackwood.
^ Silver, Christopher (2007). Renkioi: Brunel's Forgotten Crimean War Hospital . Sevenoaks: Valonia Press.
ISBN
978-0-9557105-0-6 .
^ Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr. (2002). The black death transformed: disease and culture in early Renaissance Europe . London: Arnold.
ISBN
978-0-340-70646-6 .
OCLC
50102269 .
^
"Plague deaths: Quarantine lifted after couple die of bubonic plague" . BBC News . 2019-05-07. Retrieved 2022-08-24 .
^ Frith, John.
" "The History of Plague – Part 1. The Three Great Pandemics" " . Journal of Military and Veterans' Health . 20 (2).
^ Sanburn, Josh (2010-10-26).
"Top 10 Terrible Epidemics: The Third Plague Pandemic" . Time .
ISSN
0040-781X
^ Carroll, Sean B. (2009). Remarkable Creatures: epic adventures in the search for the origins of species . London: Quercus. pp. 172–4.
^
"The Poitevin Patents and the Importance of Using Primary Sources" . BrevetsPhotographiques.fr . Archived from
the original on 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2021-11-23 .
^ van Dulken, Stephen (2001). Inventing the 19th Century: the great age of Victorian inventions . London:
British Library . pp. 30–1.
ISBN
978-0-7123-0881-6 .
^ Swinney, Geoffrey N. (2016). "George Wilson's map of technology".
Journal of Scottish Historical Studies . 36 (2): 165–90.
doi :
10.3366/jshs.2016.0184 .
^
"Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .