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Overview of the events of 1862 in science
The year 1862 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Earth sciences
Medicine
Technology
Awards
Births
January 23 –
David Hilbert (died
1943 ),
German
mathematician
February 14 –
Agnes Pockels (died
1935 ), German
chemist (in Venice)
March 14 –
Vilhelm Bjerknes (died
1951 ),
Norwegian
physicist and
meteorologist
May 27 –
John Edward Campbell (died
1924 ),
Irish -born
mathematician
June 7 –
Philipp Lenard (died
1947 ), German physicist
June 9 –
Ernest William Moir (died
1933 ),
British
civil engineer
July 2 –
William Henry Bragg (died
1942 ),
English winner of the 1915
Nobel Prize in Physics
August 2 –
Paul Bujor (died
1952 ),
Romanian animal morphologist, politician and short story writer
October 12 –
Theodor Boveri (died
1915 ), German
geneticist
October 19 –
Auguste Lumière (died
1954 ),
French inventor, film pioneer
November 23 -
Ernest Guglielminetti (died
1943 ),
Swiss
physician
[10]
William Hoskins (died
1934 ),
American
inventor
Deaths
January 10 –
Samuel Colt (born
1814 ),
American inventor
February 3 –
Jean-Baptiste Biot (born
1774 ), French
physicist
February 7 –
Prosper Ménière (born
1799 ), French
physician who first described the symptoms of
Ménière's disease
February 11 –
Luther V. Bell (born
1806 ), American psychiatric physician
March 1 –
Peter Barlow (born
1776 ), English
mathematician
April 3 – Sir
James Clark Ross (born
1800 ), English explorer of the
Polar regions
May 6 –
Olry Terquem (born
1782 ), French Jewish
geometer
October 8 –
James Walker (born
1781 ),
Scottish -born
civil engineer
October 21 –
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (born
1783 ), English
physiologist
December 18 –
Lucas Barrett (born
1837 ), English
naturalist (drowned)
December 20 –
Robert Knox (born
1791 ),
Scottish
anatomist
December 21 –
Karl Kreil (born
1798 ),
Austrian
astronomer
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