Overview of the events of 1837 in science
The year 1837 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Mathematics
Physics
Technology
Publications
Awards
Births
January 16 – Ellen Russell Emerson (died 1907 ), American ethnologist .
January 17 – François Lenormant (died 1883 ), French assyriologist and numismatist .
January 19 – William Williams Keen (died 1932 ), American physician .
January 27 – Eduard von Hofmann (died 1897 ), Austrian forensic pathologist .
March 7 – Henry Draper (died 1882 ), American physician and astronomer , pioneer of astrophotography.
March 23 – Richard Anthony Proctor (died 1888 ), English astronomer .
April 3 – John Burroughs (died 1921 ), American naturalist .
May 26 – Washington Roebling (died 1926 ), American civil engineer .
June 20 – Paul Bachmann (died 1920 ), German mathematician .
July 21 – Johanna Hedén (died 1912), Swedish midwife and surgeon.
September 8 – Raphael Pumpelly (died 1923 ), American geologist and explorer.
October 23 – Moritz Kaposi (died 1902 ), Hungarian dermatologist .
November 4 – James Douglas (died 1918 ), Canadian-born metallurgist .
November 14 – Lucas Barrett (died 1862 ), Canadian-born British naturalist .
November 23 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals (died 1923 ), Dutch theoretical physicist .
November 28 – John Wesley Hyatt (died 1920 ), American inventor and industrial chemist.
Deaths
References
^ Marchione, William P. (1998–2001). "Horace Gray: Father of the Boston Public Garden" . Brighton Allston Historical Society. Retrieved 2013-11-13 .
^ Kanemitsu, Shigeru; Jia, Chaohua (2002). Number Theoretic Methods: future trends . Springer. pp. 271–274. ISBN 978-1-4020-1080-4 .
^ Gowers, Timothy; Barrow-Green, June; Leader, Imre (2008). The Princeton Companion to Mathematics . Princeton University Press. pp. 764–765. ISBN 978-0-691-11880-2 .
^ a b Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know . London: Quercus. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8 .
^ Poisson, S.-D. (1837). Probabilité des jugements en matière criminelle et en matière civile, précédées des règles générales du calcul des probabilitiés . Paris: Bachelier.
^ Wantzel, L. (1837). "Recherches sur les moyens de reconnaître si un problème de géométrie peut se résoudre avec la règle et le compas" . Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées . 1 : 366–372.
^ U.S. Patent No. 132. "Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism And Electro-Magnetism" . Google patents. Retrieved 2011-12-13 .
^ van Dulken, Stephen (2001). Inventing the 19th Century . London: British Library . pp. 82–3. ISBN 0-7123-0881-4 .
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0 .
^ Ferry, Kathryn (2003). "Printing the Alhambra: Owen Jones and Chromolithography". Architectural History . 46 : 175–188.
^ U.S. Patent No. 491.
^ Carlisle, Rodney P. (2004). Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries: All the Milestones in Ingenuity – From the Discovery of Fire to the Invention of the Microwave Oven . New Jersey: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-24410-4 .
^ Stokstad, Marilyn ; Cateforis, David; Addiss, Stephen (2005). Art History (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education. pp. 964–967. ISBN 0-13-145527-3 .