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词条 1882 in science
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  1. Astronomy

  2. Biology

  3. Chemistry

  4. Earth sciences

  5. Mathematics

  6. Medicine

  7. Technology

  8. Events

  9. Awards

  10. Births

  11. Deaths

  12. References

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The year 1882 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy

  • September – Great Comet of 1882 sighted.[1]
  • December 6 – Transit of Venus, 1882.

Biology

  • March 24 – Robert Koch announces his discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  • Élie Metchnikoff discovers phagocytosis.[2]

Chemistry

  • Italian physicist Luigi Palmieri detects helium on Earth for the first time through its D3 spectral line when he analyzes the lava of Mount Vesuvius.[3]

Earth sciences

  • Clarence Dutton's Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District is published by the United States Geological Survey.

Mathematics

  • June – German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes proof that {{math|π}} is a transcendental number and that squaring the circle is consequently impossible.[4][5]
  • December – Swedish mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler establishes the journal Acta Mathematica.
  • Felix Klein first describes the Klein bottle.

Medicine

  • March 28 – Paul Carl Beiersdorf patents an adhesive bandage in Germany, the foundation of the Beiersdorf company.
  • Vladimir Bekhterev publishes Provodiashchie puti mozga ("The Conduction Paths in the Brain and Spinal Cord"), beginning to note the role of the hippocampus in memory.

Technology

  • January 12 – Holborn Viaduct power station in the City of London, the world's first coal-fired public electricity generating station, begins operation.[6]
  • By March – Étienne-Jules Marey invents a chronophotographic gun capable of photographing 12 consecutive frames per second on the same plate.
  • April 29 – Werner von Siemens demonstrates his Electromote, the first form of trolleybus, in Berlin.
  • June 6 – Henry W. Seeley patents the electric clothes iron in the United States.[7]
  • September 4 – Thomas Edison starts the United States' first commercial electrical power plant, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan.
  • American electrical engineer Schuyler Wheeler produces an electric fan.
  • Alfred P. Southwick publishes his proposals for use of the electric chair as an execution method in the United States.

Events

  • First International Polar Year, an international scientific program, begins.
  • The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, the modern-day Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, is founded in the United Kingdom.

Awards

  • Copley Medal: Arthur Cayley
  • Wollaston Medal for Geology: Franz Ritter von Hauer

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.
  • June 17 – Harold Gillies (died 1960), New Zealand-born plastic surgeon.
  • 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

  • January 11 – Theodor Schwann (born 1810), German physiologist.
  • April 19 – Charles Darwin (born 1809), English naturalist and geologist.
  • September 23 – Friedrich Wöhler (born 1800), German chemist.
  • October 27 – Christian Heinrich von Nagel (born 1803), German geometer.
  • November 20 – Henry Draper (born 1837), doctor, American astronomer.
  • December 24
    • Johann Benedict Listing (born 1808), German mathematician.
    • Charles Vincent Walker (born 1812), English telegraph engineer.

References

1. ^{{cite journal|last=Plummer|first=William Edward|title=The great comet of September 1882|journal=The Observatory |volume=12|pages=140–142|bibcode=1889Obs....12..140P |date=March 1889}}
2. ^{{cite journal|first=Alexander|last=Petrunkevitch|title=Russia’s Contribution to Science|journal=Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences|volume=23|year=1920|page=239}}
3. ^{{cite book|title=Recent Advances in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry|last=Stewart|first=Alfred Walter|page=201|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pIqhPFfDMXwC&pg=PA201|publisher=BiblioBazaar, LLC|year=2008|isbn=0-554-80513-8}}
4. ^{{cite journal|last=Lindemann|first=F.|url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/n109018v5r748073/?p=0e89fa387fd94fd5a05e8abf026400d6&pi=3|title=Über die Zahl π|journal=Mathematische Annalen|volume=20|year=1882|pages=213–225|doi=10.1007/BF01446522}}
5. ^{{cite book|first=Tony|last=Crilly|title=50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know|location=London|publisher=Quercus|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84724-008-8|pages=21, 81}}
6. ^{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfVKt7UzjnEC&pg=PA89|journal=New Scientist|location=London|title=The electricity of Holborn|first=Jack|last=Harris|date=1982-01-14}}
7. ^Patent no. 259,054. {{cite web|title=Household Amenities and Appliances: Timeline of Their Arrival|url=http://www.partselect.ca/resources/Appliances-Timeline-Of-Their-Arrival.aspx|publisher=PartSelect|accessdate=2012-01-25}}

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