- 1879 in science
The year 1879 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Chemistry
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Per Teodor Cleve discovered the elementsholmium andthulium
*January 2 - Publication of the first issue of theJournal of the American Chemical Society Physics
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Edwin Hall discovers theHall Effect Psychology
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Wilhelm Wundt creates the first laboratory of experimental psychology at theuniversity of Leipzig .Awards
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Copley Medal :Rudolf Clausius
*Wollaston Medal :Bernhard Studer Births
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February 22 -J. N. Brønsted (d. 1947), physicalchemist .
*March 8 -Otto Hahn (d. 1968), Germanphysicist who received the1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
*March 14 -Albert Einstein (d. 1955),scientist and winner of the1921 Nobel Prize in physics .
*May 28 -Milutin Milankovic (d. 1958),geophysicist .Deaths
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April 16 -Peter Kozler (b. 1824),geographer andcartographer .
*November 5 -James Clerk Maxwell (b. 1831),mathematician andphysicist .
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