1883 in science

The year 1883 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

List of years in science (table)

Chemistry

Earth sciences

  • August 26 – Krakatoa begins its final phase of eruptions at 1:06 pm local time. These produce a number of tsunami, mainly in the early hours of the next day, which result in about 36,000 deaths on the islands of Sumatra and Java. The final explosion at 10:02 am on August 27 destroys the island of Krakatoa itself and is heard up to 3000 miles away.
  • Vasily Dokuchaev publishes Russian Chernozem.

Genetics

Medicine

Microbiology

Physics

Technology

Zoology

Awards

Births

Deaths

References

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  3. Kutney, Gerald (2007). Sulfur: History, Technology, Applications & Industry. ChemTec Publishing. p. 62. ISBN 9781895198379.
  4. Galton, Francis (1883). Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development. London: Macmillan. p. 199.
  5. Reynolds, Osborne (1883). "An experimental investigation of the circumstances which determine whether the motion of water shall be direct or sinuous, and of the law of resistance in parallel channels". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 174: 935–982. Bibcode:1883RSPT..174..935R. doi:10.1098/rstl.1883.0029. JSTOR 109431.
  6. Rott, N. (1990). "Note on the history of the Reynolds number". Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 22 (1): 1–11. Bibcode:1990AnRFM..22....1R. doi:10.1146/annurev.fl.22.010190.000245. S2CID 54583669.
  7. "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
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