Overview of the events of 1862 in science
The year 1862 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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
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
^ Transactions of the Linnean Society (London) 23 pp. 495–566.
^ Isely, Duane (1994). One hundred and one botanists . Ames: Iowa State University Press.
^ Behrman, E. J. (2006). "Borodin" (PDF) . Journal of Chemical Education . 83 : 1138. Bibcode :2006JChEd..83.1138B . doi :10.1021/ed083p1138.1 .
^ "The Periodic Table" . Retrieved 2011-10-07 .
^ "Alexander Parkes (1813–1890)" . People & Polymers . Plastics Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2007-03-15. Retrieved 2007-03-24 .
^ Yarilov, A. A. (1904). "Fr. A'b, Fallu, osnovatel' pedologii" [Fr. A'b, Fallu, founder of soil science]. Pochvovedenie (in Russian). 2 : 125–135.
^ Wigley, F. M.; Flavahan, N. A. (2016-08-11). "Raynaud's Phenomenon". The New England Journal of Medicine . 375 (6): 556–65. doi :10.1056/nejmra1507638 . PMID 27509103 .
^ Roe, Joseph Wickham (1916), English and American Tool Builders , New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, LCCN 16011753 . Reprinted by McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1926 (LCCN 27-24075 ); and by Lindsay Publications, Inc., Bradley, Illinois (ISBN 978-0-917914-73-7).
^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .
^ (in Italian, French, and German) Heldner, Paul (21 July 2005). "Guglielminetti, Ernest" . Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse. Retrieved 13 February 2021 .