1872 in science
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The year 1872 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Contents
Chemistry
- Robert Chesebrough patents Vaseline in the United States[1]
- Eugen Baumann rediscovers polyvinyl chloride
- Charles-Adolphe Wurtz discovers the aldol reaction
Conservation
- March 1 – Yellowstone National Park is established in the United States, the world's first national park[2][3]
Exploration
- December 21 – Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger (1858) sails from Portsmouth in England on the 4-year scientific expedition that lays the foundation for the science of oceanography[4]
Mathematics
- Richard Dedekind publishes Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen, a theory of irrational numbers[5]
- Felix Klein produces the Erlangen program on geometries[5]
Medicine
- Moritz Kaposi describes Kaposi's sarcoma[6][7] and the manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Ferdinand Monoyer proposes the dioptre as a unit for measuring the optical power of a lens[8]
Physics
- Ludwig Boltzmann states the Boltzmann equation for the temporal development of distribution functions in phase space, and publishes his H-theorem[9]
Technology
- John Hopkinson proposes the group flash system for distinguishing lighthouses[10]
- Reverend C. M. Ramus of Sussex, England, devizes the single-step hydroplane hull[11]
Institutions
- October 1 – the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College begins its first academic session
- The Polytechnic Museum in Moscow is founded[12]
Publications
- May – the magazine Popular Science is first published in the United States
- Charles Darwin publishes The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Awards
Births
- April 5 – Samuel Cate Prescott (died 1962), American food scientist and microbiologist
- May 6 – Willem de Sitter (died 1934), Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer
- May 21 – Henry E. Warren (died 1957), American inventor
- May 31 – Charles Greeley Abbot (died 1973), American astrophysicist
- August 1 – Solomon Carter Fuller (died 1953), Liberian-born psychiatrist
- September 23 – Marie Depage (died in sinking of the RMS Lusitania 1915), Belgian nurse
- October 4 – Ernest Fourneau (died 1949), French medicinal chemist
Deaths
- April 2 – Samuel F. B. Morse (born 1791), inventor
- May 6 – George Robert Gray (born 1808), zoologist
- December 24 – William John Macquorn Rankine (born 1820), physicist
- Anne Elizabeth Ball (born 1808), psychologist
- Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (born 1787), physician
References
- ↑ U.S. Patent 127,568.
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- ↑ U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 17, Chap. 24, pp. 32-33. "An Act to set apart a certain Tract of Land lying near the Head-waters of the Yellowstone River as a public Park." From The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 collection, Library of Congress.
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