1869 in science

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The year 1869 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Events

November 4 – The first issue of scientific journal Nature is published in London, edited by Norman Lockyer.

March 6 – Dmitri Mendeleev makes a formal presentation of his periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
June 15 – John Wesley Hyatt patents celluloid, in Albany, New York.
July 15 – Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès files a patent for margarine (as oleomargarine) in France as a beef tallow and skimmed milk substitute for butter.
German chemist Lothar Meyer makes a formal presentation of the revised and expanded version of his independently-created 1864 periodic table, „Die Natur der chemischen Elemente als Funktion ihrer Atomgewichte".
Publication of Adolphe Wurtz's Dictionnaire de chimie pure et appliquée begins in Paris.

April 6 – The American Museum of Natural History is founded in New York.
Paul Langerhans discovers the pancreatic islets.
Friedrich Miescher discovers deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in the pus of discarded surgical bandages. Found in the nuclei of cells, Miescher names it "nuclein".
Neurasthenia is first published as a diagnosis in psychopathology by Michigan alienist E. H. Van Deusen of the Kalamazoo asylum[1] followed a few months later by New York neurologist George Miller Beard.[2]
French missionary and naturalist Père Armand David receives the skin of a giant panda from a hunter, the first time this species has become known to a Westerner;[3] he also first describes a specimen of the "pocket handkerchief tree", which will be named in his honor as Davidia involucrata.
Alfred Russel Wallace publishes The Malay Archipelago.

W. Stanley Jevons publishes The Substitution of Similars and has a "Logic Piano" constructed to work out problems in symbolic logic.[4]
Hermann Schwarz devises Schwarz–Christoffel mapping.

Approximate date – Henry Christopher Mance develops a practical military heliograph in the British Raj.[5][6][7]

February 14 – C. T. R. Wilson (died 1959), Scottish winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
April 8 – Harvey Cushing (died 1939), American neurosurgeon.
April 17 – Robert Robertson (died 1949), Scottish-born chemist.
July 18 – Maria von Linden (died 1936), German bacteriologist and zoologist.
August 23 – Robert Gunther (died 1940), English historian of science.
October 3 – Robert W. Paul (died 1943), English pioneer of cinematography.
December 16 – Bertha Lamme (died 1943), American electrical engineer.
Helen Boyle (died 1957), British physician and psychologist.

Van Deusen, E. H. (April 1869). "Observations on a form of nervous prostration (neurasthenia) culminating in insanity". American Journal of Insanity. 25 (4): 445–461. doi:10.1176/ajp.25.4.445.
Beard, George (1869). "Neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion". The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. 80 (13): 217–221. doi:10.1056/NEJM186904290801301.
"Giant Panda". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (2000). The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870–1940. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-05857-3.
Woods, Daniel (2008). "Heliograph and Mirrors". In Sterling, Christopher (ed.). Military Communications: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century. ABC-CLIO. p. 208. ISBN 978-1851097326.
Mance, Henry (1872-02-10). "The Heliograph or Sun Telegraph". United Service Institution of India. 1 (5): 123–130. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
Goode, Samuel (1875-06-14). "Mance's Heliograph, or Sun-Telegraph". Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. XIX (LXXXIII): 534–548. doi:10.1080/03071847509415772. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
"Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.

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