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Overview of the events of 1896 in science
The year 1896 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Chemistry
Svante Arrhenius formulates the "greenhouse law" and becomes the first person to predict that emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other combustion processes are large enough to cause
global warming through the
greenhouse effect .
Earth sciences
Exploration
Mathematics
Meteorology
Microbiology
Physics
Physiology and medicine
Technology
Awards
Births
January 3 –
Jay Laurence Lush (died
1982 ),
American livestock
geneticist .
February 2 –
Kazimierz Kuratowski (died
1980 ),
Polish
mathematician .
February 14 –
Arthur Milne (died
1950 ),
English
space
physicist .
February 28 –
Philip Showalter Hench (died
1965 ), American physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
March 29 –
Wilhelm Ackermann (died
1962 ),
German mathematician.
April 7 –
Donald Winnicott (died
1971 ), English
child psychiatrist .
April 14 –
Priscilla Fairfield Bok (died
1975 ), American astronomer.
April 30 –
Hans List (died
1996 ), Austrian inventor.
May 6 –
Rolf Maximilian Sievert (died
1966 ),
Swedish physicist.
May 31 –
Hilda Lyon (died
1946 ), English
aeronautical engineer .
June 1 –
Shintaro Uda (died
1976 ),
Japanese
electrical engineer .
June 7 –
Robert S. Mulliken (died
1986 ), American physicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
July 16 –
Otmar von Verschuer (died
1969 ), German
eugenicist .
August 15 –
Gerty Cori (née Radnitz) (died
1957 ),
Prague -born winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Deaths
June 23 –
Joseph Prestwich (born
1812 ),
English
geologist .
July 13 –
August Kekulé (born
1829 ), German
organic
chemist .
August 10 –
Otto Lilienthal (born
1848 ), German
aviation pioneer.
September 18 –
Hippolyte Fizeau (born
1819 ), French
physicist .
October 21 –
James Henry Greathead (born
1844 ),
British
civil engineer .
October 27 –
H. Newell Martin (born
1848 ),
British
physiologist .
November 3 –
Eugen Baumann (born
1846 ), German
chemist .
November 22 –
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (born
1859 ),
American
civil engineer , inventor of the
Ferris wheel .
December 10 –
Alfred Nobel (born
1833 ),
Swedish -born
inventor .
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