1877 in science
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The year 1877 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Medicine
- Patrick Manson studies animal carriers of infectious diseases
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- September 2 - Frederick Soddy (d.1956), physical chemist.
- September 11 - James Hopwood Jeans (d. 1946), mathematician and scientist.
- September 13 - Wilhelm Filchner (d. 1957), explorer.
- October 25 - Henry Norris Russell (d. 1957), astronomer.
- Oswald Theodore Avery (d. 1955), bacteriologist.
- Godfrey Harold Hardy (d. 1947), mathematician.
[edit] Deaths
- September 17 - William Fox Talbot (b. 1800), mathematician, physicist and chemist.
- September 23 - Urbain Le Verrier (b. 1811), astronomer.
- September 26 - Hermann Günther Grassmann (b. 1809), mathematician.
- Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister (b. 1824), botanist.
