1875 in science
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The year 1875 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Chemistry
- Gallium is discovered spectroscopically by French chemist Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Later this year he obtains the free metal by electrolysis of its hydroxide and names it. This is the first of Dmitri Mendeleev's predicted elements to be identified.[1][2][3]
Genetics
- Francis Galton publishes "The History of Twins, as a criterion of the relative powers of nature and nurture".[4]
Medicine
- The weekly medical journal Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift is established in Germany by Paul Börner.[5]
Metrology
- May 20 - International Bureau of Weights and Measures established.
Awards
Births
- January 14 - Albert Schweitzer (died 1965), medical missionary.
- February 4 - Ludwig Prandtl (died 1953), physicist.
- June 28 - Henri Lebesgue (died 1941), mathematician.
- July 26 - Carl Jung (died 1961), psychiatrist.
- October 23 - Gilbert N. Lewis (died 1946), chemist; first to isolate deuterium.
Deaths
- February 22 - Charles Lyell (born 1797), geologist.
- March 7 - John Edward Gray (born 1800), taxonomist.
- March 31 - Friedrich Julius Richelot (born 1808), mathematician.
- April 11 - Heinrich Schwabe (born 1789), astronomer.
- October 19 - Charles Wheatstone (born 1802), inventor.
- November 27 - Richard Carrington (born 1826), astronomer.
References
- ↑ de Boisbaudran, Lecoq. "Caractères chimiques et spectroscopiques d'un nouveau métal, le gallium, découvert dans une blende de la mine de Pierrefitte, vallée d'Argelès (Pyrénées)". Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences 81: 493. Retrieved 2008-09-23.; De Boisbaudran, Lecoq (1876). "Ueber die physikalischen Eigenschaften des Galliums". Annalen der Physik und Chemie 235 (12): 649. Bibcode:1876AnP...235..649D. doi:10.1002/andp.18762351216.
- ↑ Weeks, Mary Elvira (1932). "The discovery of the elements. XIII. Some elements predicted by Mendeleeff". Journal of Chemical Education 9 (9): 1605–1619. Bibcode:1932JChEd...9.1605W. doi:10.1021/ed009p1605.
- ↑ Ball, Philip (2002). The Ingredients: a Guided Tour of the Elements. Oxford University Press. p. 105. ISBN 0-19-284100-9.
- ↑ Fraser's Magazine 12: 566-76.
- ↑ Staehr, C. (September 1999). "Dr. Paul Börner, founder of the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift". Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift (in German) 124 (38): 1119–20. doi:10.1055/s-0029-1233185. PMID 10576968.
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