1872 in science

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The year 1872 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: Friedrich Woehler
• Wollaston Medal for geology: James Dwight Dana

[edit] Births

• May 6 - Willem de Sitter (d. 1934), mathematician, physicist and astronomer.

[edit] Deaths

• April 2 - Samuel F. B. Morse (b. 1791), inventor.
• December 24 - William John Macquorn Rankine (b. 1820), physicist.