1888 in science

The year 1888 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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Events

Astronomy

Biology

Chemistry

Geography

Mathematics

Meteorology

  • The global atmospheric temperature returns to normal, five years after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (Krakatau). The volcanic dust veil, that has created spectacular atmospheric effects, also acted as a solar-radiation filter, lowering global temperatures by as much as 1.2 degrees Celsius in the year after the eruption.

Physics

Physiology and medicine

Technology

Awards

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Dreyer, J. L. E. (1888). "A New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, being the Catalogue of the late Sir John F.W. Herschel, Bart., revised, corrected, and enlarged" (PDF). Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. 49: 1–237. Bibcode:1888MmRAS..49....1D.
  2. Maienschein, Jane (1989). One Hundred Years Exploring Life, 1888-1988: the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. Boston: Jones & Bartlett. ISBN 978-0-86720-120-8.
  3. Helferich, B. (1953). "Emil Fischer zum 100. Geburtstag". Angewandte Chemie. 65 (2): 45–52. doi:10.1002/ange.19530650202.
  4. Bulmer, Michael (2003). Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 191–196. ISBN 978-0-8018-7403-1.
  5. Texts: Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen?; Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen?; translation: Ewald, William B. (ed). (1996). From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics. Oxford University Press. 787-832.
  6. Kovalevskaya, S. (1889). "Sur le problème de le rotation d'un corps solide autour d'un point fixe". Acta Mathematica. 12: 177–232. doi:10.1007/bf02592182.
  7. Cooke, Roger (1984). The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya. New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-96030-2.
  8. Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). "Immunotherapy: past, present and future" (PDF). Nature Medicine. 9 (3): 269–277. doi:10.1038/nm0303-269. PMID 12612576.
  9. "Adolf Eugen Fick (1852–1937)". Archived from the original on 2015-05-17. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
  10. U.S. Patent 375,962
  11. U.S. Patent 381,968
  12. U.S. Patent 382,790
  13. Member's Circular Letter February 2008 Archived 2012-02-27 at the Wayback Machine
  14. U.S. Patent 388,850. Filed in March.
  15. UK Patent No. 15630.
  16. Collingridge, Jeremy M. R.; et al. (2007). "Ink Reservoir Writing Instruments 1905–20". Transactions of the Newcomen Society. 77 (1): 69–100. doi:10.1179/175035207X163361.
  17. "Louis Le Prince". Local Heroes. BBC Education. 1999-11-28. Archived from the original on 1999-11-28. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
  18. Howells, Richard (Summer 2006). "Louis Le Prince: the body of evidence". Screen. Oxford Journals. 47 (2): 179–200. doi:10.1093/screen/hjl015. ISSN 0036-9543.
  19. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-102715-9.
  20. "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
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