Overview of the events of 1855 in science
The year 1855 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
January 5 – King Camp Gillette (died 1932 ), American inventor . January 21 – John Browning (died 1926 ), American inventor. January 28 – William Seward Burroughs (died 1898 ), American inventor of the adding machine . March 13 – Percival Lowell (died 1916 ), American astronomer . May 12 – Oskar von Miller (died 1934 ), German electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum . May 29 – David Bruce (died 1931 ), Australian-born British microbiologist . November 5 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort (died 1913 ), French meteorologist . November 7 – Edwin Hall (died 1938 ), American physicist , discoverer of the "Hall effect ". Stephen Paget (died 1926 ), English surgeon. February 23 – Carl Friedrich Gauss (born 1777 ), German mathematician . February 27 – Bryan Donkin (born 1768 ), English engineer and inventor. March 20 – Joseph Aspdin (born 1778 ), English inventor. April 13 – Henry De la Beche (born 1796 ), English geologist . June 7 – Friederike Lienig (born 1790 ), Latvian entomologist. June 29 – John Gorrie (born 1803 ), Scottish American physician and inventor. July 6 – Andrew Crosse (born 1784 ), English 'gentleman scientist', pioneer experimenter in electricity. July 8 – William Parry (born 1790 ), English Arctic explorer . October 7 – François Magendie (born 1783 ), French physiologist . December 6 – William John Swainson (born 1789 ), English naturalist . ^ Wallace, Alfred Russel. "On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species" . Annals and Magazine of Natural History . Second Series. 16 . ^ Virchow, R. Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin 8 (1855). ^ Lagunoff, David (2002). "A Polish, Jewish Scientist in 19th-Century Prussia". Science . 298 (5602): 2331. doi :10.1126/science.1080726 . PMID 12493897 . ^ At Glasgow meeting of British Association for the Advancement of Science . ^ Gaedcke, F. (1855). "Ueber das Erythroxylin, dargestellt aus den Blättern des in Südamerika cultivirten Strauches Erythroxylon Coca" (PDF) . Archiv der Pharmazie . 132 (2): 141–150. doi :10.1002/ardp.18551320208 . ^ Wurtz, Adolphe (1855). "Sur une nouvelle classe de radicaux organiques" . Annales de chimie et de physique . 44 : 275–312. Retrieved 2012-02-07 . ^ "Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (1816–1885)" . Picture History . Picture History LLC. 2003. Archived from the original on 2007-07-07. Retrieved 2007-03-24 . ^ Thorez, Jacques; Dreesen, Roland; Streel, Maurice (2006). "Frasnian" . Geologica Belgica . 9 : 27–45. Retrieved 2013-03-16 . [permanent dead link ] ^ Seacole, Mary (1858). Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands . London: Blackwood. ^ Silver, Christopher (2007). Renkioi: Brunel's Forgotten Crimean War Hospital . Sevenoaks: Valonia Press. ISBN 978-0-9557105-0-6 . ^ Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr. (2002). The black death transformed: disease and culture in early Renaissance Europe . London: Arnold. ISBN 978-0-340-70646-6 . OCLC 50102269 . ^ "Plague deaths: Quarantine lifted after couple die of bubonic plague" . BBC News . 2019-05-07. Retrieved 2022-08-24 . ^ Frith, John. " "The History of Plague – Part 1. The Three Great Pandemics" " . Journal of Military and Veterans' Health . 20 (2). ^ Sanburn, Josh (2010-10-26). "Top 10 Terrible Epidemics: The Third Plague Pandemic" . Time . ISSN 0040-781X ^ Carroll, Sean B. (2009). Remarkable Creatures: epic adventures in the search for the origins of species . London: Quercus. pp. 172–4. ^ "The Poitevin Patents and the Importance of Using Primary Sources" . BrevetsPhotographiques.fr . Archived from the original on 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2021-11-23 . ^ van Dulken, Stephen (2001). Inventing the 19th Century: the great age of Victorian inventions . London: British Library . pp. 30–1. ISBN 978-0-7123-0881-6 . ^ Swinney, Geoffrey N. (2016). "George Wilson's map of technology". Journal of Scottish Historical Studies . 36 (2): 165–90. doi :10.3366/jshs.2016.0184 . ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .