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Overview of the events of 1878 in science
The year 1878 in
science and
technology involved many significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Conservation
Exploration
August –
Cleopatra's Needle (horizontal) being raised in
London .
Geology
Mathematics
Medicine
Cesare Lombroso publishes L'uomo delinquente , setting out his theory of criminal atavism.
Ádám Politzer publishes Lehrbuch der Ohrenheilkunde , a major
otology textbook.
[8]
Dentists Act in the
United Kingdom limits the title of "dentist" and "dental surgeon" to qualified and registered practitioners.
[9]
Meteorology
February 11 – The first weekly weather report is published in the
United Kingdom .
Paleontology
Physics
Technology
Institutions
Awards
Births
January 1 –
A. K. Erlang ,
Danish
mathematician (died
1929 )
January 7 –
Samuel James Cameron ,
Scottish
obstetrician (died
1959 )
January 25 –
Ernst Alexanderson ,
Swedish -born television pioneer (died
1975 )
February 5 –
André Citroën ,
French automobile manufacturer (died
1935 )
February 8 –
Martin Buber ,
Austrian philosopher (died
1965 )
February 10 –
Jennie Smillie ,
Canadian
gynecological
surgeon (died
1981 )
February 28 –
Pierre Fatou , French mathematician (died
1929 )
March 4 –
Peter D. Ouspensky ,
Russian philosopher (died
1947 )
April 16 –
Owen Thomas Jones ,
Welsh
geologist (died
1967 )
June 3 –
Barney Oldfield ,
American automobile racer and pioneer (died
1946 )
June 12 –
James Oliver Curwood , American novelist and
conservationist (died
1927 )
July 12 –
Peeter Põld ,
Estonian politician and pedagogical scientist (died
1930 )
August 28 –
George Whipple , American winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died
1976 )
September 5 –
Robert von Lieben , Austrian
physicist (died
1913 )
September 13 –
Matilde Moisant , American pilot (died
1964 )
October 1 –
Helen Mayo , Australian pediatrician (died
1967 )
November 7 –
Lise Meitner , Austrian-Swedish physicist (died
1968 )
[19]
November 8 –
Dorothea Bate , Welsh-born
paleozoologist (died
1951 )
November 26 –
Major Taylor , American cyclist (died
1932 )
December 25 –
Louis Chevrolet ,
Swiss -born race driver and automobile builder (died
1941 )
December 25 –
Joseph Schenck , Russian-born film executive (died
1962 )
Deaths
January 18 –
William Stokes ,
Irish
physician (born
1804 )
January 18 –
Antoine César Becquerel , French scientist (born
1788 )
January 19 –
Henri Victor Regnault , French
physical chemist (born
1810 )
February 8 –
Elias Magnus Fries ,
Swedish
botanist (born
1794 )
February 10 –
Claude Bernard , French
physiologist (born
1813 )
February 26 –
Angelo Secchi ,
Italian astronomer (born
1818 )
March 16 –
William Banting ,
English
undertaker and
dietician (b. c.
1796 )
May 13 –
Joseph Henry , American physicist (born
1797 )
June 6 –
Robert Stirling ,
Scottish clergyman and inventor (born
1790 )
July 23 –
Baron Carl von Rokitansky ,
Bohemian
pathologist (born 1804)
September 25 –
August Heinrich Petermann ,
German
cartographer (born
1822 )
Friedrich Freese, German botanist (born 1794)
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"Sur les spectres d'absorption ultra-violets des terres de la gadolinite" .
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^ Soret, Jacques-Louis (1879).
"Sur le spectre des terres faisant partie du groupe de l'yttria" . Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences . 89 : 521.
^ Cleve, Per Teodor (1879).
"Sur deux nouveaux éléments dans l'erbine" . Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences . 89 : 478.
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"Dob's Linn" . Scottish Geology . Archived from
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"125 Years of Developments in Dentistry" . British Dental Journal . 199 (7): 470.
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^ Sur l’invariabilité des grandes axes des orbites planétaires ("On the invariability of the major axis of planetary orbits"), University of Paris.
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"Scientists Recover the Sounds of 19th-Century Music and Laughter From the Oldest Playable American Recording" . The Atlantic . Retrieved 2013-06-15 .
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