1865 in science
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The year 1865 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Archaeology
- John Lubbock publishes Pre-historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages, including his coinage of the term Palæolithic.[1]
Chemistry
- Friedrich Kekulé proposes a ring structure for benzene.[2]
- Adolf von Baeyer begins work on indigo dye, a milestone in modern industrial organic chemistry which revolutionizes the dye industry.[3]
- Johann Josef Loschmidt determines exact number of molecules in a mole, later named Avogadro's number.[4]
Life sciences
- Louis Pasteur shows that the air is full of bacteria.
- Joseph Lister begins to experiment with antiseptic surgery in Glasgow using carbolic acid.[5]
- Gregor Mendel reads his paper, Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden (Experiments on Plant Hybridization), at two meetings of the Natural History Society of Brünn in Moravia.[6]
- Max Schultze gives the first known description of the platelet.[7]
- Francis Galton formulates eugenics.[8]
- Claude Bernard publishes Principes de Médecine experimentale.
- May 17 - Father Armand David first observes Père David's Deer in China.[9]
- September - John Henry Walsh (writing as 'Stonehenge' in the magazine The Field) gives the first definition of a dog breed standard (for the pointer) based on physical form.[10]
- September 28 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson obtains a licence from the Society of Apothecaries in London to practice medicine, the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the United Kingdom,[11] and sets up in her own practice.
Physics
- Rudolf Clausius gives the first mathematical version of the concept of entropy, and also names it.[12][13]
- James Clerk Maxwell publishes A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.[5]
Technology
- Aveling and Porter produce the first steam roller in Kent, England.[14]
Awards
- Copley Medal: Michel Chasles.
- Wollaston Medal in Geology: Thomas Davidson.
Births
- January 22 - Friedrich Paschen (died 1947), German physicist.
- February 1 - Henry Luke Bolley (died 1956), American plant pathologist.
- March 31 - Anandi Gopal Joshi (died 1887), Indian physician.
- June 27 - John Monash (died 1931), Australian civil engineer and General.
- August 10 - Charles Close (died 1952), Jersey-born cartographer.
Deaths
- May 27 - Charles Waterton (born 1782), English naturalist and explorer.
- July 25 - Dr James Barry (born 1789-1799), Irish-born military surgeon, revealed on death to be a woman, probably Margaret Ann Bulkley.
- August 12 - Sir William Jackson Hooker (born 1785), English botanist.
- August 26 - Johann Franz Encke (born 1791), German astronomer.
- August 29 - Robert Remak (born 1815), Polish/Prussian Jewish embryologist.
- September 2 - Sir William Rowan Hamilton (born 1805), Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.
- October 17 - Joseph-François Malgaigne (born 1806), French surgeon.
References
- ↑ "Palaeolithic, adj. and n.". Oxford English Dictionary online version (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. December 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2012-02-24. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ Kekulé, F. A. (1865). "Sur la constitution des substances aromatiques". Bulletin de la Société Chimique de Paris 3: 98–110.
- ↑ "Adolf von Baeyer: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1905". Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1901–1921. Elsevier Publishing Company. 1966. Retrieved 2007-02-28.
- ↑ John H. Lienhard (2003). "Johann Josef Loschmidt". The Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode 1858. NPR. KUHF-FM Houston.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1865". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
- ↑ Moore, Randy (May 2001). "The "Rediscovery" of Mendel's Work". Bioscene 27. Retrieved 06 February 2011.
- ↑ Schultze, M. (1865). "Ein heizbarer Objecttisch und seine Verwendung bei Untersuchungen des Blutes". Archiv fÜr Mikroskopische Anatomie 1: 1–42.
- ↑ Galton, Francis (1865). "Hereditary talent and character". Macmillan's Magazine 12: 157–166, 318–327. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
- ↑ "Elaphurus davidianus". Ultimate Ungulate. 2004. Archived from the original on 05 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-05.
- ↑ "First modern dog discovered". University of Manchester. 2013-03-06. Retrieved 2013-03-07.
- ↑ Apart from the woman passing herself off as Dr James Barry. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ↑ Clausius, R. (1865). "Über die Wärmeleitung gasförmiger Körper". Annalen der Physik 125: 353–400. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- ↑ Clausius, R. (1867). The Mechanical Theory of Heat – with its Applications to the Steam Engine and to Physical Properties of Bodies. London: John van Voorst.
- ↑ "Aveling and Porter". Grace's Guide. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
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