- 1883 in science
The year 1883 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Geology
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August 26 -Krakatoa begins its final phase of eruptions at 1:06pm local time. These produce a number oftsunami , mainly in the early hours of the next day, which result in about 36,000 deaths on the islands ofSumatra and Java. The final explosion at 10:02am onAugust 27 destroys the island of Krakatoa itself and is heard up to 3000 miles awayAwards
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Copley Medal : William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
*Wollaston Medal for Geology:William Thomas Blanford Births
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May 13 -Georgios Papanikolaou (d. 1962),inventor of thePap smear .
*June 24 -Victor Francis Hess (d. 1964), Americanphysicist .
*October 8 -Otto Heinrich Warburg (d. 1970), Germanphysiologist and winner of the1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .----
Deaths
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June 26 -Edward Sabine (b. 1788),physicist ,astronomer and explorer.
*December 8 -François Lenormant (b. 1837), assyriologist and numismatist.
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