Overview of the events of 1837 in science
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The year 1837 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Mathematics
Physics
Technology
Publications
Awards
Births
- January 16 – Ellen Russell Emerson (died 1907), American ethnologist.
- January 17 – François Lenormant (died 1883), French assyriologist and numismatist.
- January 19 – William Williams Keen (died 1932), American physician.
- January 27 – Eduard von Hofmann (died 1897), Austrian forensic pathologist.
- March 7 – Henry Draper (died 1882), American physician and astronomer, pioneer of astrophotography.
- March 23 – Richard Anthony Proctor (died 1888), English astronomer.
- April 3 – John Burroughs (died 1921), American naturalist.
- April 27 – Paul Gordan (died 1912), German Jewish mathematician, "the king of invariant theory".
- May 26 – Washington Roebling (died 1926), American civil engineer.
- June 20 – Paul Bachmann (died 1920), German mathematician.
- July 21 – Johanna Hedén (died 1912), Swedish midwife and surgeon.
- September 8 – Raphael Pumpelly (died 1923), American geologist and explorer.
- October 23 – Moritz Kaposi (died 1902), Hungarian dermatologist.
- November 4 – James Douglas (died 1918), Canadian-born metallurgist.
- November 14 – Lucas Barrett (died 1862), Canadian-born British naturalist.
- November 23 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals (died 1923), Dutch theoretical physicist.
- November 28 – John Wesley Hyatt (died 1920), American inventor and industrial chemist.
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References
- ^ Sulloway, F. J. (1982). "The Beagle collections of Darwin's finches (Geospizinae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series. 43 (2): 49–94. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-16.
- ^ Sulloway, F. J. (1982). "Darwin and his finches: the evolution of a legend" (PDF). Journal of the History of Biology. 15: 1–53. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.458.3975. doi:10.1007/BF00132004.
- ^ Marchione, William P. (1998–2001). "Horace Gray: Father of the Boston Public Garden". Brighton Allston Historical Society. Retrieved 2013-11-13.
- ^ Kanemitsu, Shigeru; Jia, Chaohua (2002). Number Theoretic Methods: future trends. Springer. pp. 271–274. ISBN 978-1-4020-1080-4.
- ^ Gowers, Timothy; Barrow-Green, June; Leader, Imre (2008). The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. Princeton University Press. pp. 764–765. ISBN 978-0-691-11880-2.
- ^ a b Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Poisson, S.-D. (1837). Probabilité des jugements en matière criminelle et en matière civile, précédées des règles générales du calcul des probabilitiés. Paris: Bachelier.
recherches sur la probabilité des jugements en matière criminelle.
- ^ Wantzel, L. (1837). "Recherches sur les moyens de reconnaître si un problème de géométrie peut se résoudre avec la règle et le compas". Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. 1: 366–372.
- ^ U.S. Patent No. 132. "Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism And Electro-Magnetism". Google patents. Archived from the original on March 2, 2012. Retrieved 2011-12-13.
- ^ van Dulken, Stephen (2001). Inventing the 19th Century. London: British Library. pp. 82–3. ISBN 0-7123-0881-4.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Ferry, Kathryn (2003). "Printing the Alhambra: Owen Jones and Chromolithography". Architectural History. 46: 175–188.
- ^ U.S. Patent No. 491.
- ^ Carlisle, Rodney P. (2004). Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries: All the Milestones in Ingenuity – From the Discovery of Fire to the Invention of the Microwave Oven. New Jersey: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-24410-4.
- ^ Stokstad, Marilyn; Cateforis, David; Addiss, Stephen (2005). Art History (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education. pp. 964–967. ISBN 0-13-145527-3.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 July 2020.