1853 in science

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The year 1853 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Biology 2 Exploration 3 Mathematics 4 Medicine 5 Awards 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 References

Biology

• March 17 - Claude Bernard presents his doctoral thesis describing the glycogenetic function of the liver.^[1]
• Anton de Bary publishes the first study demonstrating that rust and smut fungi cause plant disease.

Exploration

• Alfred Russell Wallace publishes A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an account of the native tribes, and observations on the climate, geology, and natural history of the Amazon Valley.

Mathematics

• Jakob Steiner investigates the Steiner system.^[2]

Medicine

• William Little publishes a paper "On the Deformities of the Human Frame" in which he gives the first descripion of pseudo-hypertrophic muscular dystrophy.^[3]
• Charles Pravaz and Alexander Wood independently invent a practical hypodermic syringe.
• Antoine Desormeaux produces and names an endoscope illuminated by a kerosene lamp, using it to examine the urinary tract.^[4]

Awards

• Copley Medal: Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Adolphe d'Archiac; Edouard de Verneuil

Births

• July 18 - Hendrik Lorentz (d. 1928), Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
• September 2 - Wilhelm Ostwald (d. 1932), Baltic German chemist.
• September 9 - Pierre Marie (d. 1940), French neurologist.

Deaths

• March 17 - Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and discoverer of the Doppler effect (b. 1803)
• April 23 - Auguste Laurent (b. 1807), chemist.
• October 2 - François Arago (b. 1786), mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.
• October 18 - Johann Fischer von Waldheim (b. 1771), naturalist.

References