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Overview of the events of 1882 in science
The year 1882 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Great Comet as seen from
Cape Town by David Gill
Biology
Chemistry
Earth sciences
Mathematics
Medicine
Technology
Events
Awards
Births
March 14 –
Wacław Sierpiński (died
1969 ),
Polish
mathematician .
March 23 –
Emmy Noether (died
1935 ),
German mathematician.
March 30 –
Melanie Klein (died
1960 ), Viennese-born
psychoanalyst .
April 27 –
Harry Allan (died
1957 ), New Zealand botanist.
June 17 –
Harold Gillies (died 1960),
New Zealand -born
plastic surgeon .
July 12 –
Traian Lalescu (died
1929 ),
Romanian mathematician.
July 21 –
Herbert E. Ives (died
1953 ),
American
optical engineer .
September 30 –
Hans Geiger (died
1945 ), German
inventor of the
Geiger counter .
October 5 –
Robert Goddard (died 1945), American
rocket
scientist .
October 26 –
Marietta Pallis (died
1963 ),
Indian -born Graeco-British
ecologist .
November 18 –
Frances Gertrude McGill (died
1959 ), pioneering
Canadian
forensic pathologist .
December 11 –
Max Born (died
1970 ), German physicist and recipient of the
Nobel Prize in physics in 1954.
December 28 –
Arthur Eddington (died
1944 ),
English
astrophysicist .
Israel Aharoni (died
1946 ), Belarusian-born Jewish
zoologist .
Deaths
References