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Overview of the events of 1878 in science
The year 1878 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
Astronomy [ edit ] Biology [ edit ] Chemistry [ edit ] Conservation [ edit ] Exploration [ edit ] August – Cleopatra's Needle (horizontal) being raised in London . Geology [ edit ] Mathematics [ edit ] Medicine [ edit ] Cesare Lombroso publishes L'uomo delinquente , setting out his theory of criminal atavism.Ádám Politzer publishes Lehrbuch der Ohrenheilkunde , a major otology textbook.[8] Dentists Act in the United Kingdom limits the title of "dentist" and "dental surgeon" to qualified and registered practitioners.[9] Meteorology [ edit ] February 11 – The first weekly weather report is published in the United Kingdom . Paleontology [ edit ] Physics [ edit ] Technology [ edit ] Institutions [ edit ] January 1 – A. K. Erlang , Danish mathematician (died 1929 )
January 7 – Samuel James Cameron , Scottish obstetrician (died 1959 )
January 25 – Ernst Alexanderson , Swedish -born television pioneer (died 1975 )
February 5 – André Citroën , French automobile manufacturer (died 1935 )
February 8 – Martin Buber , Austrian philosopher (died 1965 )
February 10 – Jennie Smillie , Canadian gynecological surgeon (died 1981 )
February 28 – Pierre Fatou , French mathematician (died 1929 )
March 4 – Peter D. Ouspensky , Russian philosopher (died 1947 )
April 16 – Owen Thomas Jones , Welsh geologist (died 1967 )
June 3 – Barney Oldfield , American automobile racer and pioneer (died 1946 )
June 12 – James Oliver Curwood , American novelist and conservationist (died 1927 )
July 12 – Peeter Põld , Estonian politician and pedagogical scientist (died 1930 )
August 28 – George Whipple , American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1976 )
September 5 – Robert von Lieben , Austrian physicist (died 1913 )
September 13 – Matilde Moisant , American pilot (died 1964 )
October 1 – Helen Mayo , Australian pediatrician (died 1967 )
November 7 – Lise Meitner , Austrian-Swedish physicist (died 1968 )[19]
November 8 – Dorothea Bate , Welsh-born paleozoologist (died 1951 )
November 26 – Major Taylor , American cyclist (died 1932 )
December 25 – Louis Chevrolet , Swiss -born race driver and automobile builder (died 1941 )
December 25 – Joseph Schenck , Russian-born film executive (died 1962 ) January 18 – William Stokes , Irish physician (born 1804 )
January 18 – Antoine César Becquerel , French scientist (born 1788 )
January 19 – Henri Victor Regnault , French physical chemist (born 1810 )
February 8 – Elias Magnus Fries , Swedish botanist (born 1794 )
February 10 – Claude Bernard , French physiologist (born 1813 )
February 26 – Angelo Secchi , Italian astronomer (born 1818 )
March 16 – William Banting , English undertaker and dietician (b. c.1796 )
May 13 – Joseph Henry , American physicist (born 1797 )
June 6 – Robert Stirling , Scottish clergyman and inventor (born 1790 )
July 23 – Baron Carl von Rokitansky , Bohemian pathologist (born 1804)
September 25 – August Heinrich Petermann , German cartographer (born 1822 )
Friedrich Freese, German botanist (born 1794) References [ edit ]
^ "V muzeu Emila Holuba se ukrýval kapský lev" . Novinky.cz (in Czech). 2009-05-22. Retrieved 2011-08-26 .^ Soret, Jacques-Louis (1878). "Sur les spectres d'absorption ultra-violets des terres de la gadolinite" . Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences 87 : 1062. ^ Soret, Jacques-Louis (1879). "Sur le spectre des terres faisant partie du groupe de l'yttria" . Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences . 89 : 521. ^ Cleve, Per Teodor (1879). "Sur deux nouveaux éléments dans l'erbine" . Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences . 89 : 478. ^ Cleve, Per Teodor (1879). "Sur l'erbine" . Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences . 89 : 708. ^ "Dob's Linn" . Scottish Geology . Archived from the original on 2011-05-18. Retrieved 2011-04-07 .^ Feller, William (1968), An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications , vol. 1 (3rd ed.), Wiley, p. 69^ Mudry, A. (2000). "The Role of Adam Politzer in the History of Otology". American Journal of Otology . 21 : 753–763. ^ Gelbier, Stanley (2005). "125 Years of Developments in Dentistry" . British Dental Journal . 199 (7): 470. doi :10.1038/sj.bdj.4812875 PMID 16215593 . ^ Sur l’invariabilité des grandes axes des orbites planétaires ("On the invariability of the major axis of planetary orbits"), University of Paris.^ Rosen, Rebecca J. (2012-10-26). "Scientists Recover the Sounds of 19th-Century Music and Laughter From the Oldest Playable American Recording" . The Atlantic . Retrieved 2013-06-15 . ^ Davies, William Llewelyn (2009). "Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist" . Welsh Biography Online . Retrieved 2012-11-09 . ^ van Dulken, Stephen (2001). Inventing the 19th Century: the great age of Victorian inventions . London: British Library . p. 80. ISBN 978-0-7123-0881-6 ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder . Helicon. 1999. ISBN 978-1-85986-000-7 ^ 210,762.
^ "Invention of the Espresso Machine" . Barista's Roasting Co. Archived from the original on 2012-04-28. Retrieved 2012-06-20 .^ "Miners Foundry – Allans Machine Shop Founded 1856" . Historical Marker Database . Retrieved 2011-09-03 .^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .^ Bailey Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z . London: Routledge. p. 877. ISBN 978-0-41592-040-7
