Overview of the events of 1874 in science
The year 1874 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy [ edit ] Chemistry [ edit ] Exploration [ edit ] History of science [ edit ] Mathematics [ edit ] Medicine [ edit ] Neuroscience [ edit ] Physics [ edit ] Psychology [ edit ] Franz Brentano publishes Psychologie vom Empirischen Standpunkte (Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint) Technology [ edit ] January 22 – Leonard Eugene Dickson (died 1954 ), American mathematician February 2 – Ernest Shackleton (died 1922 ), Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer April 25 – Guglielmo Marconi (died 1937 ), Italian inventor September 12 – Redcliffe N. Salaman (died 1955 ), English botanist September 26 – Oakes Ames (died 1950 ), American botanist October 13 – Kiyotsugu Hirayama (died 1943 ), Italian astronomer November 27 – Chaim Weizmann (died 1952 ), Russian-born chemist and first President of Israel November 29 – António Egas Moniz (died 1955 ), Portuguese neurologist, winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine December 6 – Elizabeth Laird (died 1969 ), Canadian physicist December 28 – Arthur Schüller (died 1957 ), Austrian-born neuroradiologist January 16 – Max Schultze (born 1825 ), German physiologist January 24 – Johann Philipp Reis (born 1834 ), German physicist and inventor February 17 – Adolphe Quetelet (born 1796 ), Belgian mathematician and astronomer February 19 – Carl Ernst Bock (born 1809 ), German physician and anatomist March 3 – Forbes Winslow (born 1810 ), English psychiatrist March 14 – Johann Heinrich von Mädler (born 1794 ), German astronomer March 28 – Peter Andreas Hansen (born 1795 ), Danish-born German astronomer April 13 – James Bogardus (born 1800 ), American inventor November 21 – Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (born 1800), Scottish-born naturalist References [ edit ] ^ DDT and its derivatives , Environmental Health Criteria monograph No. 009, Geneva: World Health Organization, 1979, ISBN 92-4-154069-9 ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know . London: Quercus. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8 . ^ The Foundations of Stereo Chemistry: Memoirs by Pasteur, van 't Hoff, Lebel and Wislicenus . New York: American Book Co. 1901. ^ Jones, Max (2003). The Last Great Quest . Oxford University Press. pp. 56–57 . ISBN 0-19-280483-9 . ^ McGonigal, David (2009). Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent . London: Frances Lincoln. p. 289. ISBN 0-7112-2980-5 . ^ Johnson, Phillip E. (1972). "The Genesis and Development of Set Theory". The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal . 3 (1): 55–62. ^ Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (2000). The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870–1940 . Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-05858-0 . ^ Cooke, Roger (1984). The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya . New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-96030-9 . ^ Elston, M. A. (2004). "Hoggan, Frances Elizabeth (1843–1927)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/46422 . Retrieved 2012-06-22 . (subscription or UK public library membership required) ^ Elston, M. A. (2004). "Edinburgh Seven (act. 1869–1873)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-01-28 . ^ Autobiography of A. T. Still. Rev. ed., Kirksille, MO (1908). ^ Maxwell, James Clerk; Harman, P. M. (2002), The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Volume 3; 1874-1879 , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-25627-5 , p. 148: "I have just finished a clay model of a fancy surface, showing the solid, liquid, and gaseous states, and the continuity of liquid and gaseous states." (letter to Thomas Andrews , November 1874). ^ DeLony, Eric. "Context for World Heritage Bridges" . International Council on Monuments and Sites . Archived from the original on 9 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-02-06 . ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .