Overview of the events of 1862 in science
The year 1862 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Earth sciences
Medicine
Technology
Awards
Births
January 23 – David Hilbert (died 1943 ), German mathematician
February 14 – Agnes Pockels (died 1935 ), German chemist (in Venice)
March 14 – Vilhelm Bjerknes (died 1951 ), Norwegian physicist and meteorologist
May 27 – John Edward Campbell (died 1924 ), Irish -born mathematician
June 7 – Philipp Lenard (died 1947 ), German physicist
June 9 – Ernest William Moir (died 1933 ), British civil engineer
July 2 – William Henry Bragg (died 1942 ), English winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics
August 2 – Paul Bujor (died 1952 ), Romanian animal morphologist, politician and short story writer
October 12 – Theodor Boveri (died 1915 ), German geneticist
October 19 – Auguste Lumière (died 1954 ), French inventor, film pioneer
November 23 - Ernest Guglielminetti (died 1943 ), Swiss physician [ 10]
William Hoskins (died 1934 ), American inventor
Deaths
January 10 – Samuel Colt (born 1814 ), American inventor
February 3 – Jean-Baptiste Biot (born 1774 ), French physicist
February 7 – Prosper Ménière (born 1799 ), French physician who first described the symptoms of Ménière's disease
February 11 – Luther V. Bell (born 1806 ), American psychiatric physician
March 1 – Peter Barlow (born 1776 ), English mathematician
April 3 – Sir James Clark Ross (born 1800 ), English explorer of the Polar regions
May 6 – Olry Terquem (born 1782 ), French Jewish geometer
October 8 – James Walker (born 1781 ), Scottish -born civil engineer
October 21 – Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (born 1783 ), English physiologist
December 18 – Lucas Barrett (born 1837 ), English naturalist (drowned)
December 20 – Robert Knox (born 1791 ), Scottish anatomist
December 21 – Karl Kreil (born 1798 ), Austrian astronomer
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