Overview of the events of 1875 in science
The year 1875 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Francis Galton publishes The History of Twins , as a criterion of the relative powers of nature and nurture.[ 6] January 10 – Issai Schur (died 1941 ), Belarusian -born Jewish mathematician January 14 – Albert Schweitzer (died 1965 ), German-born French medical missionary February 4 – Ludwig Prandtl (died 1953 ), German physicist March 14 – Fran Jesenko (died 1932 ), Slovene botanist and plant geneticist June 20 – Reginald Punnett (died 1967 ), English geneticist June 28 – Henri Lebesgue (died 1941), French mathematician July 26 – Carl Jung (died 1961 ), Swiss psychiatrist September 11 – Edith Humphrey (died 1978 ), English chemist October 23 – Gilbert N. Lewis (died 1946 ), American chemist; first to isolate deuterium November 12 – Stanislaus von Prowazek , born Stanislav Provázek (died 1915 ), Bohemian parasitologist ^ de Boisbaudran, Lecoq. "Caractères chimiques et spectroscopiques d'un nouveau métal, le gallium, découvert dans une blende de la mine de Pierrefitte, vallée d'Argelès (Pyrénées)" . Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences . 81 : 493. Retrieved 2008-09-23 . ; De Boisbaudran, Lecoq (1876). "Ueber die physikalischen Eigenschaften des Galliums" (PDF) . Annalen der Physik und Chemie . 235 (12): 649–650. Bibcode :1876AnP...235..649D . doi :10.1002/andp.18762351216 . ^ Weeks, Mary Elvira (1932). "The discovery of the elements. XIII. Some elements predicted by Mendeleeff". Journal of Chemical Education . 9 (9): 1605–1619. Bibcode :1932JChEd...9.1605W . doi :10.1021/ed009p1605 . ^ Ball, Philip (2002). The Ingredients: a Guided Tour of the Elements . Oxford University Press. p. 105. ISBN 0-19-284100-9 . ^ Fischer, E. (1875). "Ueber aromatische Hydrazinverbindungen" [On aromatic hydrazine compounds.] Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 8 :589-594. ^ Wilson, Philip K.; Hurst, W. Jeffrey (2012). Chocolate as Medicine: A Quest Over the Centuries . London: Royal Society of Chemistry. pp. 97–8. ISBN 978-1-84973-411-0 . ^ Fraser's Magazine 12 : 566-76. ^ Staehr, C. (September 1999). "Dr. Paul Börner, founder of the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift". Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift (in German). 124 (38): 1119–20. doi :10.1055/s-0029-1233185 . PMID 10576968 . ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .