1892 in science

1892 in science

The year 1892 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Chemistry

*William Ramsay discovers argon

Mathematics

*Georg Cantor shows there are different kinds of infinity and studies transfinite numbers

Awards

*Copley Medal: Rudolf Virchow
*Wollaston Medal for geology: Ferdinand von Richtofen

Births

* March 30 - Stefan Banach (d. 1945), great Polish mathematician.
* April 14 - Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (d. 1979), astronomer.
* August 15 - Louis-Victor de Broglie (d. 1987), physicist and winner 1929 of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
* November 5 - J. B. S. Haldane (d. 1964), British geneticist.
* December 12 - Herman Potočnik Noordung (d. 1929), Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics.

Deaths

* January 2 - George Biddell Airy (b. 1801), astronomer.
* January 21 - John Couch Adams (b. 1819), mathematician.
* April 2 - Emin Pasha (b. 1840), explorer.
* May 5 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann (b. 1818), chemist
* December 18 - Richard Owen (b. 1804), anatomist and paleontologist.


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