Overview of the events of 1873 in science
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The year 1873 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Chemistry
Exploration
Mathematics
Meteorology
Physics
Physiology and medicine
Technology
Awards
Births
- February 11 – Louis Charles Christopher Krieger (died 1940), American mycologist
- February 12 – Barnum Brown (died 1963), American paleontologist
- March 5 – Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr. (died 1912), American zoologist and cell biologist
- April 25 – Félix d'Herelle (died 1949), French-Canadian microbiologist, a co-discoverer of bacteriophages
- June 28 – Alexis Carrel (died 1942), French surgeon, biologist and winner of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- June 30 – Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde (died 1942), German botanist
- July 7 – Sándor Ferenczi (died 1933), Hungarian psychoanalyst
- October 4 – Dimitrie Pompeiu (died 1954), Romanian mathematician
- October 9 – Karl Schwarzschild (died 1916), German astronomer and physicist
Deaths
References
- ^ "Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff". Science History Institute. June 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
- ^ Bowden, Mary Ellen (1997). "Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff". Chemical achievers : the human face of the chemical sciences. Philadelphia, PA: Chemical Heritage Foundation. pp. 94–95. ISBN 9780941901123.
- ^ a b Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ "Etudes d'un nouveau cercle du plan du triangle". Paper to l'Association française pour l'avancement des sciences.
- ^ Guggenbuhl, Laura (December 1953). "Henri Brocard and the Geometry of the Triangle". The Mathematical Gazette. 37 (322). London: Mathematical Association: 241–243. doi:10.1017/S0025557200027558. JSTOR 3610034.
- ^ "Effect of Light on Selenium During the Passage of an Electric Current". Nature. 7 (173): 303. 1873. Bibcode:1873Natur...7R.303.. doi:10.1038/007303e0.
- ^ Clerk-Maxwell, J. (1874). "Van der Waals on the Continuity of the Gaseous and Liquid States" (PDF). Nature. 10 (259): 477–480. Bibcode:1874Natur..10..477C. doi:10.1038/010477a0.
- ^ Clerk-Maxwell, J. (25 September 1873). "Molecules". Nature. 8 (204): 437–41. Bibcode:1873Natur...8..437.. doi:10.1038/008437a0. Also digitised at The Victorian Web. Archived 2012-02-23.
- ^ Gibbs, J. W. (1873). "A Method of Geometrical Representation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Substances by Means of Surfaces". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2: 382–404.
- ^ Richardson, Owen (1921). The emission of positive ions by hot metals. ISBN 978-1-929148-10-3. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- ^ "Alice Vickery". www.rpharms.com. Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2013-07-25.
- ^ Hansen, G. H. A. (1874). "Undersøgelser Angående Spedalskhedens Årsager" [Investigations concerning the etiology of leprosy]. Norsk Mag. Laegervidenskaben (in Norwegian). 4: 1–88.
- ^ Irgens, L. (2002). "The discovery of the leprosy bacillus". Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen. 122 (7): 708–9. PMID 11998735.
- ^ Finger, Stanley (1994). Origins of Neuroscience: a history of explorations into brain function. Oxford University Press. p. 45. ISBN 9780195146943. OCLC 27151391.
In 1873, Golgi published the first brief but "adequate" picture of la reazione nera (the black reaction), which showed the whole nerve cell, including its cell body, axon, and branching dendrites.
- ^ Rolt, L. T. C. (1965). A Short History of Machine Tools. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. p. 169.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.