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| … 1862 • 1863 • 1864 • 1865 • 1866 • 1867 • 1868 • 1869 • 1870 • 1871 – 1872 – 1873 • 1874 • 1875 • 1876 • 1877 • 1878 • 1879 • 1880 • 1881 • 1882 … |
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The year 1872 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Awards
Births
- May 6 - Willem de Sitter (d. 1934), mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
Deaths
- April 2 - Samuel F. B. Morse (b. 1791), inventor.
- December 24 - William John Macquorn Rankine (b. 1820), physicist.
