Overview of the events of 1874 in science
The year 1874 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Chemistry
Exploration
History of science
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience
Physics
Psychology
Franz Brentano publishes Psychologie vom Empirischen Standpunkte (Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint)
Technology
Awards
Births
January 22 – Leonard Eugene Dickson (died 1954 ), American mathematician
February 2 – Ernest Shackleton (died 1922 ), Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer
April 25 – Guglielmo Marconi (died 1937 ), Italian inventor
September 12 – Redcliffe N. Salaman (died 1955 ), English botanist
September 26 – Oakes Ames (died 1950 ), American botanist
October 13 – Kiyotsugu Hirayama (died 1943 ), Italian astronomer
November 27 – Chaim Weizmann (died 1952 ), Russian-born chemist and first President of Israel
November 29 – António Egas Moniz (died 1955 ), Portuguese neurologist, winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
December 6 – Elizabeth Laird (died 1969 ), Canadian physicist
December 28 – Arthur Schüller (died 1957 ), Austrian-born neuroradiologist
Deaths
January 16 – Max Schultze (born 1825 ), German physiologist
January 24 – Johann Philipp Reis (born 1834 ), German physicist and inventor
February 17 – Adolphe Quetelet (born 1796 ), Belgian mathematician and astronomer
February 19 – Carl Ernst Bock (born 1809 ), German physician and anatomist
March 3 – Forbes Winslow (born 1810 ), English psychiatrist
March 10 – Moritz von Jacobi (born 1801 ), German-born electrical engineer
March 14 – Johann Heinrich von Mädler (born 1794 ), German astronomer
March 28 – Peter Andreas Hansen (born 1795 ), Danish-born German astronomer
April 13 – James Bogardus (born 1800 ), American inventor
November 21 – Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (born 1800), Scottish-born naturalist
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^ McGonigal, David (2009). Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent . London: Frances Lincoln. p. 289. ISBN 0-7112-2980-5 .
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