Overview of the events of 1888 in science
The year 1888 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy [ edit ] Biology [ edit ] Chemistry [ edit ] Geography [ edit ] Mathematics [ edit ] Meteorology [ edit ] The global atmospheric temperature returns to normal, five years after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (Krakatau). The volcanic dust veil, that has created spectacular atmospheric effects, also acted as a solar-radiation filter, lowering global temperatures by as much as 1.2 degrees Celsius in the year after the eruption. Physics [ edit ] Physiology and medicine [ edit ] Technology [ edit ] February 14 – Robert Remak (died 1942 ), German mathematician . February 17 – Otto Stern (died 1969 ), German-born physicist , Nobel laureate in Physics in 1943 . March 16 – Anton Köllisch (died 1916 ), German chemist noted for synthesising MDMA May 13 – Inge Lehmann (died 1993 ), Danish seismologist . June 12 – Zygmunt Janiszewski (died 1920 ), Polish mathematician. July 5 – Herbert Spencer Gasser (died 1963 ), American physiologist , Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1944 . July 22 – Selman Waksman (died 1973 ), Ukrainian-born Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist . July 23 – Ivan Magill (died 1986 ), Irish -born anaesthesiologist . August 13 – John Logie Baird (died 1946 ), Scottish -born inventor . September 17 – Michiyo Tsujimura (died 1969 ), Japanese agricultural scientist November 15 – Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (died 1957 ), Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer . November 24 – Eduard Pernkopf (died 1955 ), Austrian anatomist . November 30 – Ralph Hartley (died 1970 ), American electrical engineer . January 19 – Heinrich Anton de Bary (born 1831 ), German surgeon , botanist , microbiologist and mycologist . February 22 – Anna Kingsford (born 1846 ), English physician , anti-vivisectionist and vegetarian . March 9 – Robert Gordon Latham (born 1812 ), English ethnologist and philologist . March 15 – Squire Whipple (born 1804 ), American civil engineer . April 1 – Jules Émile Planchon (born 1823 ), French botanist . May 21 – Friedrich Gerke (born 1801 ), German pioneer of telegraphy . August 23 – Philip Henry Gosse (born 1810 ), English science writer. August 24 – Rudolf Clausius (born 1822 ), German physicist . September 12 – Richard A. Proctor (born 1837 ), English astronomer . September 30 – Eunice Newton Foote (born 1819 ), American physicist and women's rights campaigner. October 25 – Theodor Kjerulf (born 1825 ), Norwegian geologist . November 1 – Nikolay Przhevalsky (born 1839 ), Russian explorer . References [ edit ] ^ Dreyer, J. L. E. (1888). "A New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, being the Catalogue of the late Sir John F.W. Herschel, Bart., revised, corrected, and enlarged" (PDF) . Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society . 49 : 1–237. Bibcode :1888MmRAS..49....1D . ^ Maienschein, Jane (1989). One Hundred Years Exploring Life, 1888-1988: the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole . Boston: Jones & Bartlett. ISBN 978-0-86720-120-8 . ^ Helferich, B. (1953). "Emil Fischer zum 100. Geburtstag". Angewandte Chemie . 65 (2): 45–52. doi :10.1002/ange.19530650202 . ^ Bulmer, Michael (2003). Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 191–196. ISBN 978-0-8018-7403-1 . ^ Texts: Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen? ; Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen? ; translation: Ewald, William B. (ed). (1996). From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics . Oxford University Press. 787-832. ^ Kovalevskaya, S. (1889). "Sur le problème de le rotation d'un corps solide autour d'un point fixe" . Acta Mathematica . 12 : 177–232. doi :10.1007/bf02592182 . ^ Cooke, Roger (1984). The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya . New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-96030-2 . ^ Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). "Immunotherapy: past, present and future" . Nature Medicine . 9 (3): 269–277. doi :10.1038/nm0303-269 . PMID 12612576 . ^ Waldeyer, W. (December 1888). "Ueber Karyokinese und ihre Beziehungen zu den Befruchtungsvorgängen" . Archiv für Mikroskopische Anatomie (in German). 32 (1): 1–122. doi :10.1007/BF02956988 . ISSN 0176-7364 . ^ Cremer, T.; Cremer, C. (1988). "Centennial of Wilhelm Waldeyer's introduction of the term "chromosome" in 1888" . Cytogenetics & Cell Genetics . 48 (2): 65–7. doi :10.1159/000132590 . PMID 3058399 . ^ Scheuerlein, H.; Henschke, F.; Köckerling, F. (2017). "Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz – A Great Forefather: His Contributions to Anatomy with Particular Attention to "His" Fascia" . Frontiers in Surgery . 4 : 74. doi :10.3389/fsurg.2017.00074 . PMC 5723023 . PMID 29255713 . ^ "Adolf Eugen Fick (1852–1937)" . Archived from the original on 2015-05-17. Retrieved 2015-03-26 . ^ U.S. patent 375,962 ^ U.S. patent 381,968 ^ U.S. patent 382,790 ^ Member's Circular Letter February 2008 Archived 2012-02-27 at the Wayback Machine ^ U.S. patent 388,850 . Filed in March. ^ UK Patent No. 15630. ^ Collingridge, Jeremy M. R.; et al. (2007). "Ink Reservoir Writing Instruments 1905–20". Transactions of the Newcomen Society . 77 (1): 69–100. doi :10.1179/175035207X163361 . ^ "Louis Le Prince" . Local Heroes . BBC Education. 1999-11-28. Archived from the original on 1999-11-28. Retrieved 2011-08-14 . ^ Howells, Richard (Summer 2006). "Louis Le Prince: the body of evidence". Screen . 47 (2). Oxford Journals: 179–200. doi :10.1093/screen/hjl015 . ISSN 0036-9543 . ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-102715-9 . ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .