1879 in science

1879 in science
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The year 1879 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents

1 Chemistry
2 Physics
3 Psychology
4 Awards
5 Births
6 Deaths

Chemistry

Per Teodor Cleve discovered the elements holmium and thulium
January 2 - Publication of the first issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society

Physics

Edwin Hall discovers the Hall Effect

Psychology

Wilhelm Wundt creates the first laboratory of experimental psychology at the university of Leipzig.

Awards

Births

February 22 - J. N. Brønsted (d. 1947), physical chemist.
March 8 - Otto Hahn (d. 1968), German physicist who received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
March 14 - Albert Einstein (d. 1955), scientist and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics.
May 28 - Milutin Milankovic (d. 1958), geophysicist.

Deaths

April 16 - Peter Kozler (b. 1824), geographer and cartographer.
November 5 - James Clerk Maxwell (b. 1831), mathematician and physicist.

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