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Overview of the events of 1866 in science
The year 1866 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Mathematics [ edit ]
The second smallest pair of amicable numbers (1184, 1210) is discovered by teenager B. Nicolò I. Paganini.
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February 1 – Agda Meyerson (died 1924 ), Swedish nurse and healthcare profession activist
February 8 – Moses Gomberg (died 1947 ), Russian-born chemist
February 14 – Victor Despeignes (died 1937 ), French pioneer of radiation oncology
February 26 – Herbert Henry Dow (died 1930 ), Canadian-born chemist
April 17 – Ernest Starling (died 1927 ), English physiologist
July 13 – Emily Winifred Dickson (died 1944 ), Irish -born gynaecologist
July 25 – Frederick Blackman (died 1947 ), English plant physiologist
September 13 – Arthur Pollen (died 1937), English inventor
September 21 – H. G. Wells (died 1946 ), English scientific populariser
September 25 – Thomas Hunt Morgan (died 1945 ), American biologist , Nobel laureate in Physiology
October 8 – Reginald Fessenden (died 1932 ), Canadian pioneer of radio broadcasting
November 11 – Martha Annie Whiteley (died 1956 ), English chemist and mathematician
November 30 – Robert Broom (died 1951 ), Scottish -born paleontologist
December 7 – Maude Delap (died 1953 ), Irish marine biologist
March 6 – William Whewell (born 1794 ), English scientist, philosopher and historian of science
March 14 – Alexander Morison (born 1779 ), Scottish physician and psychiatrist
April 4 – William Dick (born 1793 ), Scottish veterinarian
April 5 – Thomas Hodgkin (born 1798 ), English physician
July 20 – Bernhard Riemann (born 1826 ), German-born mathematician
September 16 – François Mêlier (born 1798 ), French physician [16]
October 18 – Philipp Franz von Siebold (born 1796 ), German physician, botanist and traveler in Japan
December 1 – George Everest (born 1790 ), British surveyor and geographer
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^ Mendel, J. G. (1866). "Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden". Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn . IV : 3–47 (Abhandlungen ). For the English translation, see Druery, C. T.; Bateson, William (1901). "Experiments in plant hybridization" (PDF) . Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society . 26 : 1–32. Retrieved 2009-10-09 .
^ Petrunkevitch, Alexander (1920). "Russia's Contribution to Science". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . 23 : 239.
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^ Schück, H.; Sohlman, R. (1929). The Life of Alfred Nobel . London: Heinemann.
^ von Hofmann, A. W. (1866). Introduction to Modern Chemistry: Experimental and Theoretic; Embodying Twelve Lectures Delivered in the Royal College of Chemistry, London . London: Walton and Maberly.
^ Erlenmeyer, Emil (1866). "Studien über die s. g. aromatischen Säuren" . Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie . 137 (3): 327–359. doi :10.1002/jlac.18661370309 .
^ Edwards, Ralph W. (1951). "The First Woman Dentist Lucy Hobbs Taylor, D.D.S. (1833–1910)". Bulletin of the History of Medicine . 25 (3): 277–283. JSTOR 44443642 . PMID 14848611 .
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^ Zur Anatomie und Physiologie der Retina .
^ Down, J. Langdon H. (1866). "Observations on the Ethnic Classification of Idiots". Clinical Lectures and Reports by the Medical and Surgical Staff of the London Hospital . 3 : 259–62.
^ Holtz, Thomas R. (2004). "Tyrannosauroidea". In Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (eds.). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 111–136. ISBN 0-520-24209-2 .
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^ McNeill, Ian (1972). Hydraulic Power . London: Longman. ISBN 0-582-12797-1 .
^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .
^ Jules Bergeron, Alexandre Wauthier. "François Mêlier" . cths.fr (in French). Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 2020-10-27 .