Overview of the events of 1894 in science
The year 1894 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
March 21 (23:00 GMT ) – Syzygy : Mercury transits the Sun as seen from Venus , and Mercury and Venus both simultaneously transit the Sun as seen from Saturn .
Biology
Chemistry
Physiology and medicine
Psychology
Technology
Awards
Births
Born January 1: Satyendra Nath Bose January 1 – S. N. Bose (died 1974 ), Indian physicist .
January 13 – Dorothée Pullinger (died 1986 ), French-born British production engineer.
February 11 – Izaak Kolthoff (died 1993 ), Dutch 'father of analytical chemistry '.
February 16 – Constance Tipper , née Elam (died 1995 ), English metallurgist .
April 29 – Marietta Blau (died 1970 ), Austrian physicist.[ 12]
May 5 – August Dvorak (died 1975 ), American educational psychologist .
June 13 – Leo Kanner (died 1981 ), Austrian-born clinical child psychiatrist .
June 14 – W. W. E. Ross (died 1966 ), Canadian geophysicist and poet.
June 23 – Alfred Kinsey (died 1956 ), American biologist , professor of entomology and zoology , and sexologist , founder of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1947.
July 8 – Pyotr Kapitsa (died 1984 ), Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
July 17 – Georges Lemaître (died 1966 ), Belgian physicist.
August 2 – Bertha Lutz (died 1976 ), Brazilian herpetologist and women's rights campaigner.
November 19 – Heinz Hopf (died 1971 ), German mathematician .
Deaths
Died January 1: Hermann von Helmholtz January 1 – Heinrich Hertz (born 1857 ), German physicist .
February 3 – Edmond Frémy (born 1814 ), French chemist .
March 29 – Georges Pouchet (born 1833 ), French comparative anatomist.
April 2 – Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (born 1817 ), Mauritian -born physiologist and neurologist .
April 9 – Arthur Hill Hassall (born 1817 ), English physician, microbiologist and chemical analyst.
April 27 – Birdsill Holly (born 1820 ), American hydraulic engineer .
November 26 – Pafnuty Chebyshev (born 1821 ), Russian mathematician .
October 7 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (born 1809 ), American physician and writer.
September 8 – Hermann von Helmholtz (born 1821 ), German physicist.
References
^ Benecke, Mark (2001). "A brief history of forensic entomology". Forensic Science International . 120 (1– 2): 2– 14. doi :10.1016/S0379-0738(01)00409-1 . PMID 11457602 . ^ Yersin, Alexandre (1894). "La peste bubonique à Hong-Kong" . Annales de l'Institut Pasteur . 8 . Paris: 662– 67 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library. ^ Bockemühl, J. (April 1994). "100 years after the discovery of the plague-causing agent — importance and veneration of Alexandre Yersin in Vietnam today". Immunitat und Infektion . 22 (2): 72– 5. PMID 7959865 . ^ Rayleigh, Lord; Ramsay, William (May 1894). "Argon, a New Constituent of the Atmosphere" . Proceedings of the Royal Society 57 (1). London: 265– 287. doi :10.1098/rspl.1894.0149 JSTOR 115394 . ^ Emsley, John (2001). Nature's Building Blocks: an A–Z Guide to the Elements 35–36 . ISBN 978-0-19-850340-8 ^ "Timber Truss Bridges" (PDF) . McMillan Britton & Kell Pty Limited . Roads and Traffic Authority. December 1998. Retrieved 2011-06-17 .^ Display in University Museum.
^ #528671. "Animal-Trap" . Google Patents . Retrieved 2012-10-01 .
^ Webb, Brian (1973). The British Internal Combustion Locomotive 1894–1940 . Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-6115-3 ^ Hirsch, Robert (2005). Exploring Colour Photography: A Complete Guide (new ed.). London: Laurence King Publishing. pp. 29– 30. ISBN 978-1-85669-420-9 ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .^ Halpen, Leopold E. (1997). "Marietta Blau". In Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey (eds.). A Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity . Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-77351-642-7
