Overview of the events of 1857 in science
|
- … 1847
- 1848
- 1849
- 1850
- 1851
- 1852
- 1853
- 1854
- 1855
- 1856
- 1857
- 1858
- 1859
- 1860
- 1861
- 1862
- 1863
- 1864
- 1865
- 1866
- 1867 …
|
+... |
1857 in science |
---|
|
Fields |
---|
|
Technology |
---|
|
Social sciences |
---|
|
Paleontology |
---|
|
Extraterrestrial environment |
---|
Terrestrial environment |
---|
Other/related |
---|
|
|
The year 1857 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Earth sciences
Exploration
History of science and technology
Mathematics
Medicine
Technology
Publications
Awards
Births
- January 20 – Vladimir Bekhterev (died 1927), Russian psychologist.
- February 3 – Wilhelm Johannsen (died 1927), Danish plant physiologist and geneticist.
- February 22 – Heinrich Hertz (died 1894), German physicist
- March 27 – Carl Pearson (died 1936), English mathematician.
- April 30 – Eugen Bleuler (died 1939), Swiss psychiatrist.
- May 13 – Ronald Ross (died 1932), Indian-born British physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902.
- May 15 – Williamina Fleming (died 1911), Scottish-born American astronomer.[7]
- June 28 – Robert Jones (died 1933), Welsh orthopaedic surgeon.
- July 11 – Joseph Larmor (died 1942), Irish physicist.
- August 8 – Henry Fairfield Osborn (died 1935), American paleontologist.
- October 2 – John Macintyre (died 1928), Scottish laryngologist and pioneer radiographer.
- November 1 – John Joly (died 1933), Anglo-Irish physicist.
- November 27 – Charles Sherrington (died 1952), English neurophysiologist and bacteriologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932.
- November 29 – Theodor Escherich (died 1911), German-born pediatric bacteriologist.
Deaths
- January 2 – Andrew Ure (born 1778), Scottish industrial chemist and encyclopaedist.
- May 23 – Augustin-Louis Cauchy (born 1789), French mathematician.
- June 21 – Louis Jacques Thénard (born 1777), French chemist.
- July 13 – Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (born 1783), German chemist.
- July 29 – Charles Lucien Bonaparte (born 1803), French naturalist.
- August 12 – William Conybeare (born 1787), English geologist.
- November 30 – Mary Buckland (born 1797), English paleontologist and marine biologist.
- December 15 – George Cayley (born 1773), English aviation pioneer.
- December 17 – Francis Beaufort (born 1774), British hydrographer.
- date unknown – Elizabeth Philpot (born 1780), English paleontologist.
References
- ^ W. T. L. (1875). "Peter Andreas Hansen". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 35 (4): 168–170. Bibcode:1875MNRAS..35..168.. doi:10.1093/mnras/35.4.168. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
- ^ "August Kekulé and Archibald Scott Couper". Science History Institute. Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
- ^ Bowden, Mary Ellen (1997). Chemical achievers : the human face of the chemical sciences. Philadelphia, PA: Chemical Heritage Foundation. pp. 91–93. ISBN 9780941901123.
- ^ Biggs, Norman L.; Lloyd, E. Keith; Wilson, Robin J. (1976). Graph Theory 1736–1936. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198539010.
- ^ Marshall, John (1979). The Guinness Book of Rail Facts & Feats. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-900424-56-7.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ Todd, Deborah; Angelo, Joseph (2003). A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy. New York: Facts of File. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-81604-639-3.