1874 in science explained
The year 1874 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Chemistry
Exploration
History of science
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience
Physics
Psychology
- Franz Brentano publishes Psychologie vom Empirischen Standpunkte (Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint)
Technology
Awards
Births
- January 22 – Leonard Eugene Dickson (died 1954), American mathematician
- February 2 – Ernest Shackleton (died 1922), Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer
- April 25 – Guglielmo Marconi (died 1937), Italian inventor
- September 12 – Redcliffe N. Salaman (died 1955), English botanist
- September 26 – Oakes Ames (died 1950), American botanist
- October 13 – Kiyotsugu Hirayama (died 1943), Italian astronomer
- November 27 – Chaim Weizmann (died 1952), Russian-born chemist and first President of Israel
- November 29 – António Egas Moniz (died 1955), Portuguese neurologist, winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- December 6 – Elizabeth Laird (died 1969), Canadian physicist
- December 28 – Arthur Schüller (died 1957), Austrian-born neuroradiologist
Deaths
- January 16 – Max Schultze (born 1825), German physiologist
- January 24 – Johann Philipp Reis (born 1834), German physicist and inventor
- February 17 – Adolphe Quetelet (born 1796), Belgian mathematician and astronomer
- February 19 – Carl Ernst Bock (born 1809), German physician and anatomist
- March 3 – Forbes Winslow (born 1810), English psychiatrist
- March 14 – Johann Heinrich von Mädler (born 1794), German astronomer
- March 28 – Peter Andreas Hansen (born 1795), Danish-born German astronomer
- April 13 – James Bogardus (born 1800), American inventor
- November 21 – Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (born 1800), Scottish-born naturalist
Notes and References
- Book: Crilly, Tony. 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London. Quercus. 2007. 978-1-84724-008-8. 116.
- Book: The Foundations of Stereo Chemistry: Memoirs by Pasteur, van 't Hoff, Lebel and Wislicenus. New York. American Book Co.. 1901.
- Book: Jones, Max. The Last Great Quest. Oxford University Press. 2003. 0-19-280483-9. 56–57.
- Book: McGonigal, David. 289. Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent. London. Frances Lincoln. 2009. 0-7112-2980-5.
- Johnson. Phillip E.. 1972. The Genesis and Development of Set Theory. The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal. 3. 1. 55–62.
- Book: Grattan-Guinness, Ivor. Ivor Grattan-Guinness
. Ivor Grattan-Guinness. 2000. The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870–1940. Princeton University Press. 978-0-691-05858-0.
- Book: Cooke, Roger. The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya. registration. New York. Springer-Verlag. 1984. 0-387-96030-9.
- Web site: M. A.. Elston. Hoggan, Frances Elizabeth (1843–1927). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. 2012-06-22. 10.1093/ref:odnb/46422.
- Web site: M. A.. Elston. Edinburgh Seven (act. 1869–1873). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. 2011-01-28.
- Autobiography of A. T. Still. Rev. ed., Kirksille, MO (1908).
- Maxwell, James Clerk; Harman, P. M. (2002), The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Volume 3; 1874-1879, Cambridge University Press,, p. 148: "I have just finished a clay model of a fancy surface, showing the solid, liquid, and gaseous states, and the continuity of liquid and gaseous states." (letter to Thomas Andrews, November 1874).
- Web site: DeLony. Eric. Context for World Heritage Bridges. International Council on Monuments and Sites. 2007-02-06. 9 June 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070609163211/http://www.icomos.org/studies/bridges.htm.
- Web site: Copley Medal British scientific award . Encyclopedia Britannica . 23 July 2020 . en.