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Overview of the events of 1850 in science
The year 1850 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
January 5 – Sidney Browne (died – 1941 ), British military nurse.
January 15 (January 3 O.S. ) – Sofia Kovalevskaya (died 1891 ), Russian-born mathematician.
January 24 – Hermann Ebbinghaus (died 1909 ), German psychologist.
January 29 – Edmond Nocard (died 1903 ), French veterinarian and microbiologist .
February 15 – Sophie Bryant (died 1922 ), Irish-born mathematician and educationalist.
March 31 – Charles Walcott (died 1927 ), American paleontologist.
April 10 – Mary Emilie Holmes (died 1906), American geologist and educator.
May 18 – Oliver Heaviside (died 1925 ), English physicist.
May 21 – Giuseppe Mercalli (died 1914 ), Italian volcanologist .
May 23 – George Claridge Druce (died 1932 ), English botanist.
June 6 – Karl Ferdinand Braun (died 1918 ), German-born physicist.
August 30 – Charles Richet (died 1935 ), French physiologist, Nobel Prize winner.
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^ Wilson, David B., ed. (1990). The Correspondence between Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, Volume 1 : 1846–1869 . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. pp. 96–97. ISBN 9780521328319 .
^ Stokes, G. G. (1856). "On the numerical calculation of a class of definite integrals and infinite series" . Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society . 9 (1): 166–188.
^ "Query VI". The Lady's and Gentleman's Diary .
^ Tahta, Dick (2006). The Fifteen Schoolgirls . Cambridge: Black Apollo Press. ISBN 1-900355-48-5 .
^ London, Edinburgh & Dublin Philosophical Magazine 37 (1850) p. 369 (OED ).
^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know . London: Quercus. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8 .
^ Evans, Alun (2001). "Benjamin Guy Babington: Founding President of the London Epidemiological Society" . International Journal of Epidemiology . 30 (2): 226–230. doi :10.1093/ije/30.2.226 . PMID 11369720 .
^ "History" . Central Mental Hospital Carers. Retrieved 2014-11-22 .
^ Clausius, R. (1850). "Über die bewegende Kraft der Wärme, pt I" . Annalen der Physik . 79 : 368–397. Bibcode :1850AnP...155..368C . doi :10.1002/andp.18501550306 . hdl :2027/uc1.$b242250 . Retrieved 2011-04-26 . "Pt II" . Annalen der Physik . 155 : 500–524. Bibcode :1850AnP...155..500C . doi :10.1002/andp.18501550403 . hdl :2027/uc1.$b242250 . English translation as "On the Moving Force of Heat, and the Laws regarding the Nature of Heat itself which are deducible therefrom" . Philosophical Magazine . 2 : 1–21, 102–119. 1851. Retrieved 2011-04-26 .
^ Burke, James (1978). Connections . London: Macmillan. p. 240. ISBN 0-333-24827-9 .
^ Trachtenberg, Marvin; Hyman, Isabelle (1986). Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism – the Western tradition . London: Academy Editions. p. 478. ISBN 0856708992 .
^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .
^ "The Geological Society of London – Wollaston Medal" . www.geolsoc.org.uk . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .