Overview of the events of 1855 in science
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The year 1855 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Cartography
Chemistry
Earth sciences
- Famennian stage proposed by Belgian geologist André Dumont.[8]
Exploration
Medicine
Paleontology
Physics
Technology
Institutions
Publications
Awards
Births
- January 5 – King Camp Gillette (died 1932), American inventor.
- January 21 – John Browning (died 1926), American inventor.
- January 28 – William Seward Burroughs (died 1898), American inventor of the adding machine.
- March 13 – Percival Lowell (died 1916), American astronomer.
- May 12 – Oskar von Miller (died 1934), German electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum.
- May 29 – David Bruce (died 1931), Australian-born British microbiologist.
- November 5 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort (died 1913), French meteorologist.
- November 7 – Edwin Hall (died 1938), American physicist, discoverer of the "Hall effect".
- Stephen Paget (died 1926), English surgeon.
Deaths
- February 23 – Carl Friedrich Gauss (born 1777), German mathematician.
- February 27 – Bryan Donkin (born 1768), English engineer and inventor.
- March 20 – Joseph Aspdin (born 1778), English inventor.
- April 13 – Henry De la Beche (born 1796), English geologist.
- June 7 – Friederike Lienig (born 1790), Latvian entomologist.
- June 29 – John Gorrie (born 1803), Scottish American physician and inventor.
- July 6 – Andrew Crosse (born 1784), English 'gentleman scientist', pioneer experimenter in electricity.
- July 8 – William Parry (born 1790), English Arctic explorer.
- October 7 – François Magendie (born 1783), French physiologist.
- December 6 – William John Swainson (born 1789), English naturalist.
References
- ^ Wallace, Alfred Russel. "On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Second Series. 16.
- ^ Virchow, R. Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin 8 (1855).
- ^ Lagunoff, David (2002). "A Polish, Jewish Scientist in 19th-Century Prussia". Science. 298 (5602): 2331. doi:10.1126/science.1080726. PMID 12493897.
- ^ At Glasgow meeting of British Association for the Advancement of Science.
- ^ Gaedcke, F. (1855). "Ueber das Erythroxylin, dargestellt aus den Blättern des in Südamerika cultivirten Strauches Erythroxylon Coca" (PDF). Archiv der Pharmazie. 132 (2): 141–150. doi:10.1002/ardp.18551320208.
- ^ Wurtz, Adolphe (1855). "Sur une nouvelle classe de radicaux organiques". Annales de chimie et de physique. 44: 275–312. Retrieved 2012-02-07.
- ^ "Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (1816–1885)". Picture History. Picture History LLC. 2003. Archived from the original on 2007-07-07. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
- ^ Thorez, Jacques; Dreesen, Roland; Streel, Maurice (2006). "Frasnian". Geologica Belgica. 9: 27–45. Retrieved 2013-03-16.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Seacole, Mary (1858). Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands. London: Blackwood.
- ^ Silver, Christopher (2007). Renkioi: Brunel's Forgotten Crimean War Hospital. Sevenoaks: Valonia Press. ISBN 978-0-9557105-0-6.
- ^ Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr. (2002). The black death transformed: disease and culture in early Renaissance Europe. London: Arnold. ISBN 978-0-340-70646-6. OCLC 50102269.
- ^ "Plague deaths: Quarantine lifted after couple die of bubonic plague". BBC News. 2019-05-07. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
- ^ Frith, John. ""The History of Plague – Part 1. The Three Great Pandemics"". Journal of Military and Veterans' Health. 20 (2).
- ^ Sanburn, Josh (2010-10-26). "Top 10 Terrible Epidemics: The Third Plague Pandemic". Time. ISSN 0040-781X
- ^ Carroll, Sean B. (2009). Remarkable Creatures: epic adventures in the search for the origins of species. London: Quercus. pp. 172–4.
- ^ "The Poitevin Patents and the Importance of Using Primary Sources". BrevetsPhotographiques.fr. Archived from the original on 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ van Dulken, Stephen (2001). Inventing the 19th Century: the great age of Victorian inventions. London: British Library. pp. 30–1. ISBN 978-0-7123-0881-6.
- ^ Swinney, Geoffrey N. (2016). "George Wilson's map of technology". Journal of Scottish Historical Studies. 36 (2): 165–90. doi:10.3366/jshs.2016.0184.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.