1866 in science explained
The year 1866 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Earth sciences
Mathematics
- The second smallest pair of amicable numbers (1184, 1210) is discovered by teenager B. Nicolò I. Paganini.
Medicine
Paleontology
- American paleontologist Joseph Leidy describes the new genus and species Laelaps aquilunguis, demonstrating that theropod dinosaurs walked on their hind limbs rather than on all fours as in earlier reconstructions.[12]
Physics
Technology
Awards
Births
- February 1 – Agda Meyerson (died 1924), Swedish nurse and healthcare profession activist
- February 8 – Moses Gomberg (died 1947), Russian-born chemist
- February 14 – Victor Despeignes (died 1937), French pioneer of radiation oncology
- February 26 – Herbert Henry Dow (died 1930), Canadian-born chemist
- April 17 – Ernest Starling (died 1927), English physiologist
- July 13 – Emily Winifred Dickson (died 1944), Irish-born gynaecologist
- July 25 – Frederick Blackman (died 1947), English plant physiologist
- September 13 – Arthur Pollen (died 1937), English inventor
- September 21 – H. G. Wells (died 1946), English scientific populariser
- September 25 – Thomas Hunt Morgan (died 1945), American biologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology
- October 8 – Reginald Fessenden (died 1932), Canadian pioneer of radio broadcasting
- November 11 – Martha Annie Whiteley (died 1956), English chemist and mathematician
- November 30 – Robert Broom (died 1951), Scottish-born paleontologist
- December 7 – Maude Delap (died 1953), Irish marine biologist
Deaths
- March 6 – William Whewell (born 1794), English scientist, philosopher and historian of science
- March 14 – Alexander Morison (born 1779), Scottish physician and psychiatrist
- April 4 – William Dick (born 1793), Scottish veterinarian
- April 5 – Thomas Hodgkin (born 1798), English physician
- July 20 – Bernhard Riemann (born 1826), German-born mathematician
- September 16 – François Mêlier (born 1798), French physician [16]
- October 18 – Philipp Franz von Siebold (born 1796), German physician, botanist and traveler in Japan
- December 1 – George Everest (born 1790), British surveyor and geographer
Notes and References
- Huggins, Sir William (1824–1910). Barbara J.. Becker. 2004. 10.1093/ref:odnb/34039. 2011-03-04.
- Mendel. J. G.. 1866. Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden. Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn. IV. 3–47 (Abhandlungen). For the English translation, see Druery. C. T.. William. Bateson. Experiments in plant hybridization. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society. 26. 1–32. 1901. 2009-10-09.
- Alexander. Petrunkevitch. Russia's Contribution to Science. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 23. 1920. 239.
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979).
- Book: Schück. H.. Sohlman. R.. 1929. The Life of Alfred Nobel. London. Heinemann.
- Book: von Hofmann, A. W.. Introduction to Modern Chemistry: Experimental and Theoretic; Embodying Twelve Lectures Delivered in the Royal College of Chemistry, London. Walton and Maberly. London. 1866.
- Studien über die s. g. aromatischen Säuren. Emil. Erlenmeyer. Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. 137. 3. 327–359. 1866. 10.1002/jlac.18661370309.
- 44443642. The First Woman Dentist Lucy Hobbs Taylor, D.D.S. (1833–1910). Edwards. Ralph W.. Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 1951. 25. 3. 277–283. 14848611.
- Zur Anatomie und Physiologie der Retina.
- J. Langdon H.. Down. Observations on the Ethnic Classification of Idiots. Clinical Lectures and Reports by the Medical and Surgical Staff of the London Hospital. 3. 259–62. 1866.
- Book: 1866. The People's Chronology. Everett, Jason M.. Thomson Gale. 2006.
- Book: Holtz, Thomas R.. Thomas R. Holtz Jr.
. Thomas R. Holtz Jr.. 2004. Tyrannosauroidea. Weishampel, David B.. Dodson, Peter. Osmólska, Halszka. The Dinosauria. 2nd. University of California Press. Berkeley. 111–136. 0-520-24209-2.
- Book: Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 0-14-102715-0. 2006.
- Book: McNeill, Ian. Hydraulic Power. London. Longman. 1972. 0-582-12797-1.
- Web site: Copley Medal British scientific award . Encyclopædia Britannica . 23 July 2020 .
- Web site: fr . François Mêlier . Jules Bergeron, Alexandre Wauthier . cths.fr . Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques . 2020-10-27.