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Overview of the events of 1874 in science
The year 1874 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Franz Brentano publishes Psychologie vom Empirischen Standpunkte (Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint)
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January 22 – Leonard Eugene Dickson (died 1954 ), American mathematician
February 2 – Ernest Shackleton (died 1922 ), Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer
April 25 – Guglielmo Marconi (died 1937 ), Italian inventor
September 12 – Redcliffe N. Salaman (died 1955 ), English botanist
September 26 – Oakes Ames (died 1950 ), American botanist
October 13 – Kiyotsugu Hirayama (died 1943 ), Italian astronomer
November 27 – Chaim Weizmann (died 1952 ), Russian-born chemist and first President of Israel
November 29 – António Egas Moniz (died 1955 ), Portuguese neurologist, winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
December 6 – Elizabeth Laird (died 1969 ), Canadian physicist
December 28 – Arthur Schüller (died 1957 ), Austrian-born neuroradiologist
January 16 – Max Schultze (born 1825 ), German physiologist
January 24 – Johann Philipp Reis (born 1834 ), German physicist and inventor
February 17 – Adolphe Quetelet (born 1796 ), Belgian mathematician and astronomer
February 19 – Carl Ernst Bock (born 1809 ), German physician and anatomist
March 3 – Forbes Winslow (born 1810 ), English psychiatrist
March 14 – Johann Heinrich von Mädler (born 1794 ), German astronomer
March 28 – Peter Andreas Hansen (born 1795 ), Danish-born German astronomer
April 13 – James Bogardus (born 1800 ), American inventor
November 21 – Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (born 1800), Scottish-born naturalist
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^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know . London: Quercus. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8 .
^ The Foundations of Stereo Chemistry: Memoirs by Pasteur, van 't Hoff, Lebel and Wislicenus . New York: American Book Co. 1901.
^ Jones, Max (2003). The Last Great Quest . Oxford University Press. pp. 56–57 . ISBN 0-19-280483-9 .
^ McGonigal, David (2009). Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent . London: Frances Lincoln. p. 289. ISBN 0-7112-2980-5 .
^ Johnson, Phillip E. (1972). "The Genesis and Development of Set Theory". The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal . 3 (1): 55–62.
^ Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (2000). The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870–1940 . Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-05858-0 .
^ Cooke, Roger (1984). The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya . New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-96030-9 .
^ Elston, M. A. (2004). "Hoggan, Frances Elizabeth (1843–1927)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/46422 . Retrieved 2012-06-22 . (subscription or UK public library membership required)
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^ Autobiography of A. T. Still. Rev. ed., Kirksille, MO (1908).
^ Maxwell, James Clerk; Harman, P. M. (2002), The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Volume 3; 1874-1879 , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-25627-5 , p. 148: "I have just finished a clay model of a fancy surface, showing the solid, liquid, and gaseous states, and the continuity of liquid and gaseous states." (letter to Thomas Andrews , November 1874).
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