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Overview of the events of 1895 in science
The year 1895 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space sciences [ edit ]
Biology [ edit ]
Chemistry [ edit ]
Climatology [ edit ]
Ecology [ edit ]
Eugen Warming publishes Plantesamfund (translated as Oecology of Plants , 1909) and founds the scientific discipline ecology .
The first international meeting for the protection of birds is held in Paris.[11]
Mathematics [ edit ]
Medicine [ edit ]
Physics [ edit ]
Psychiatry [ edit ]
Technology [ edit ]
Other events [ edit ]
January 11 – Laurens Hammond (died 1973 ), American inventor.
January 15 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (died 1973), Finnish winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
May 8 – Lionel Whitby (died 1956 ), English haematologist , clinical pathologist , pharmacologist and army officer.
May 20 – R. J. Mitchell (died 1937 ), English aeronautical engineer .
May 31 – Asatour Sarafian, later Oscar H. Banker (died 1979 ), Armenian American inventor.
June 29 – Dorothy Stuart Russell (died 1983 ), Australian-born British pathologist
October 19 – Lewis Mumford (died 1990 ), American historian & philosopher of science.
October 22 – Rolf Nevanlinna (died 1980 ), Finnish mathematician .
October 23 – Hans Ferdinand Mayer (died 1980), German physicist .
October 30
December 2 – W. Conway Pierce (died 1974 ), American chemist .
December 24 – Marguerite Williams (died 1991 ?), African American geologist.
January 26 – Arthur Cayley (born 1821 ), English mathematician .
April 11 – Lothar Meyer (born 1830 ), German chemist .
May 5 – Carl Vogt (born 1817 ), German scientist who published notable works in zoology , geology and physiology .
June 29 – Sir Thomas Henry Huxley (born 1825 ), English biologist .
August 10 – Felix Hoppe-Seyler (born 1825 ), German physiologist .
August 26 – Friedrich Miescher (born 1844 ), Swiss biochemist .
September 24 – Hermann Hellriegel (born 1831 ), German agricultural chemist who discovered the mechanism by which leguminous plants assimilate the free nitrogen of the atmosphere.
September 28 – Louis Pasteur (born 1822 ), French biologist.
December 27 – Eivind Astrup (born 1871 ), Norwegian Arctic explorer.
References [ edit ]
^ "Gov. Morton Signs the Bill Providing for a Zoological Garden in This City" . The Sun . April 27, 1895. p. 7. Retrieved January 20, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Bruce, David (1895). Preliminary Report on Tsetse Fly Disease or Nagana in Zululand . Durban, South Africa: Bennet & Davis. OCLC 14776707 – via Internet Archive.
^ Duggan, A. J. (1977). "Bruce and the African Trypanosomes" . The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene . 26 (5 Pt 2 Suppl): 1080–3. doi :10.4269/ajtmh.1977.26.1080 . PMID 20787 .
^ Brandt, L W (1968). "Helium". In Hampel, Clifford A. (ed.). The Encyclopedia of the Chemical Elements . New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. pp. 256–7. ISBN 0-442-15598-0 – via Open Library .
^ Munday P (1999). "Hillebrand, William Francis (12 Dec. 1853–7 Feb. 1925)". In Garrary JA, Carnes MC (eds.). American National Biography . Vol. 10. Oxford University Press. p. 808 – via Internet Archive.
^ Ramsay, William (1895). "On a Gas Showing the Spectrum of Helium, the Reputed Cause of D3 , one of the lines in the Coronal Spectrum. Preliminary Note" . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London . 58 (1): 65–67. doi :10.1098/rspl.1895.0006 .
^ Emsley, John (2001). "Helium". Nature's Building Blocks (2002 reprint ed.). Oxford University Press . p. 177. ISBN 0-19-850341-5 – via Open Library .
^ Langlet, N. A. (1895). "Über das Atomgewicht des Heliums" [About the atomic weight of helium]. Zeitschrift für Anorganische Chemie (in German). 10 (1): 289–292. doi :10.1002/zaac.18950100130 – via Zenodo .
^ Fischer, Emil ; Speier, Arthur (December 1895). "Darstellung der Ester" [Representation of the Esters]. Chemische Berichte . 28 (3): 3252–3258. doi :10.1002/cber.189502803176 .
^ "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air Upon The Temperature of the Ground" . The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science . April 1896.
^ "The Endangered Species Act – History Of Species Protection" . Science Encyclopedia . Library Index. Archived from the original on 2013-07-01. Retrieved 2012-11-18 .
^ Korteweg, D. J.; de Vries, G. (1895). "On the Change of Form of Long Waves Advancing in a Rectangular Canal, and on a New Type of Long Stationary Waves" . The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science . 39 (240): 422–443. doi :10.1080/14786449508620739 .
^ Cantor, Georg (1895). "Beiträge zur Begründung der transfiniten Mengenlehre (1)" . Mathematische Annalen . 46 (4): 481–512. doi :10.1007/bf02124929 . S2CID 177801164 . Archived from the original on 2014-04-23.
^ Poincaré, Henri (1895). "Analysis situs" . Journal de l'École Polytechnique . (2). 1 . Paris: 1–123.
^ "Report 12 of the Council on Scientific Affairs (A-97)" . American Medical Association . 1997. Archived from the original on 2009-06-14.
^ "Popov's Contribution to the Development of Wireless Communication, 1895" . IEEE Global History Network . Milestones. IEEE . Retrieved 2013-02-23 .
^ Röntgen, W. (December 1895). "Eine neue Art von Strahlen". Sityzungs-Berichteder Physikalisch-medicinisch Gesellschaft zu Würzburg (9).
^ Chardère, B.; Borgé, G.; Borgé, M. (1985). Les Lumière (in French). Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts. p. 71. ISBN 2-85047-068-6 .
^ "New "L" Road Opens". Chicago Daily Tribune . 1895-05-07. p. 12.
^ "Cermak Road Bridge District" (PDF) . City of Chicago. 2003. p. 17. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 31, 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-09 .
^ Tschöke, Helmut; Mollenhauer, Klaus; Maier, Rudolf, eds. (2018). Handbuch Dieselmotoren (8th ed.). Wiesbaden: Springer. p. 6. ISBN 978-3-658-07696-2 .
^ Curry, Roger (2021). Engines of Change . p. 217.
^ "Electrical Bicycle" . Google Patents . 1895. Retrieved 2012-05-25 .
^ Morchin, William C.; Oman, Henry (2006). Electric Bicycles . Hoboken: Wiley. p. 3 . ISBN 978-0-471-67419-1 .
^ File:The Engineering and Mining Journal 1897-12-18- Vol 64 Iss 25 (IA sim engineering-and-mining-journal 1897-12-18 64 25).pdf
^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .