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Overview of the events of 1868 in science
The year 1868 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Chemistry
Medicine
Paleontology
- March – French
anatomically modern humans (early
Homo sapiens sapiens), at Abri de Crô-Magnon, a rock shelter at
Les Eyzies,
Dordogne , France.
Technology
Awards
Births
- January 9 – S. P. L. Sørensen (died 1939), Danish chemist.
- January 31 – Theodore William Richards (died 1928), American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- February 7 –
veterinary surgeon
.
- March 15 – Grace Chisholm Young (died 1944), English mathematician.
- March 22 – Robert Andrews Millikan (died 1953), American physicist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics.[19]
- April 4
- April 5 – Percy Furnivall (died 1938), English surgeon.
- April 8 –
zoologist
.
- April 14 – Annie S. D. Maunder, née Russell (died 1947), Irish astronomer.
- April 28 – Georgy Voronoy (died 1908), Ukrainian mathematician.
- April 30 – J. B. Christopherson (died 1955), English physician.
- May 2 – Robert W. Wood (died 1955), American optical physicist.
- June 6 – Robert Falcon Scott (died 1912), English explorer.
- June 7 – John Sealy Townsend (died 1957), Irish mathematical physicist.[21]
- June 14 –
physiologist
.
- July 4 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt (died 1921), American astronomer.[22]
- October 23 – Frederick W. Lanchester (died 1946), English automotive engineer.
- November 8 – Felix Hausdorff (died 1942), German mathematician.
- November 14 – Karl Landsteiner (died 1943), Austrian-born physiologist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[23]
- November 15 –
speleologist
and explorer.
- November 17 –
neurologist
.
- December 5 – Arnold Sommerfeld (died 1951), German theoretical physicist.[24]
- December 9 – Fritz Haber (died 1934), German chemist.[25]
Deaths
- February 10 – Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (born 1781)[26]
- February 11 – Léon Foucault (born 1819), French physicist.[27]
- February 24 – John Herapath (born 1790), English physicist.
- May 22 – Julius Plücker (born 1801), German mathematician and physicist.
- June 25 – .
- June 29 – Sir John Lillie, British army officer, entrepreneur and inventor (born 1790)
- July 15 – William T. G. Morton (born 1819), American dentist.
- August 29 – Christian Friedrich Schönbein, German chemist and inventor of the fuel cell (born 1799)[28]
- September 26 – August Ferdinand Möbius (born 1790), German mathematician and astronomer[29]
- December 25 –
Linus Yale, Jr. (born
1821), American engineer and inventor.
[30]
- December 31 – James David Forbes (born 1809), Scottish-born physicist, glaciologist and seismologist.
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- ^ Born, Max, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, 1868–1951, Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society Volume 8, Number 21, pp. 274–296 (1952)
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- ^ Gordon, Margaret Maria (1881). The home life of sir David Brewster. D. Douglas. pp. 231–236. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ John Guy Porter; Patrick Moore (1967). Yearbook of Astronomy. W. W. Norton. p. 47.
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