Overview of the events of 1872 in science
The year 1872 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
March 8 – Priscilla Susan Bury (born 1799 ), English botanist[19]
April 2 – Samuel Morse (born 1791 ), American inventor
May 6 – George Robert Gray (born 1808 ), English zoologist
August 11 – Sir Andrew Smith (born 1797 ), Scottish-born military surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist
August 22 – Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (born 1787 ), French physician
November 7 – Alfred Clebsch (born 1833 ), German mathematician
December 6 – Félix Archimède Pouchet (born 1800 ), French scientist
December 24 – William John Macquorn Rankine (born 1820 ), Scottish physicist
Anne Elizabeth Ball (born 1808), Irish psychologist
^ U.S. Patent 127,568.
^ "Yellowstone, the First National Park" . Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2011 .
^ U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 17, Chap. 24, pp. 32-33. "An Act to set apart a certain Tract of Land lying near the Head-waters of the Yellowstone River as a public Park." From The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 collection, Library of Congress .
^ Rice, A. L. (1999). "The Challenger Expedition" . Understanding the Oceans: Marine Science in the Wake of HMS Challenger . London: Routledge. pp. 27–48. ISBN 978-1-85728-705-9 . Retrieved 8 May 2011 .
^ a b Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know . London: Quercus. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8 .
^ Huntington, G. (1872-04-13). "On Chorea" . Medical and Surgical Reporter of Philadelphia . 26 (15): 317–321.
^ Lanska, D. J. (2000). "George Huntington (1850–1916) and hereditary chorea". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences . 9 (1): 76–89. doi :10.1076/0964-704X(200004)9:1;1-2;FT076 . PMID 11232352 . S2CID 22659368 .
^ Vale, Thiago Cardoso; Cardoso, Francisco (2015). "Chorea: A journey through history" . Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements . 5 : 1–6. doi :10.7916/D8WM1C98 . PMC 4454991 . PMID 26056609 .
^ Kaposi, Moriz (1872). "Idiopathisches multiples Pigmentsarkom der Haut" . Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis . 4 (2): 265–73. doi :10.1007/bf01830024 . S2CID 31438763 . Translated as: Kaposi, M. (1982). "Idiopathic Multiple Pigmented Sarcoma of the Skin" . CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians . 32 (6): 342–7. doi :10.3322/canjclin.32.6.342 .
^ "Moriz Kohn Kaposi" . Whonamedit? . Retrieved 2011-03-25 .
^ Monoyer, F. (1872). "Sur l'introduction du système métrique dans le numérotage des verres de lunettes et sur le choix d'une unité de réfraction". Annales d'Oculistiques . 68 : 101.
^ Encyclopaedia of Physics (2nd ed.). 1991.
^ Improvement in Gas-Engines (Patent no. 125166).
^ Borth, Christy (1945). Masters of Mass Production . Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. p. 152.
^ Beare, T. H. (2004). "Hopkinson, John (1849–1898)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/13758 . Retrieved 2011-06-02 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "The Evolution of the Hydroplane" . Flight . 6 : 796. 1914-07-24. Retrieved 2012-01-09 .
^ "History" . Polytechnic Museum.
^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .
^ Lightman, Bernard (2004). Dictionary Of Nineteenth-Century of British Scientists Vol.1 . Bristol: Thoemmes. p. 356. ISBN 978-1-85506-999-2 .