1854 in science
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The year 1854 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Events
- Filippo Pacini, an Italian anatomist, discovers Vibrio cholerae — the bacterium that causes cholera.[1]
- Bernhard Riemann, a German mathematician, submits his habilitation thesis Ueber die Darstellbarkeit einer Function durch eine trigonometrische Reihe (About the representability of a function by a trigonometric series), in which he describes the Riemann integral. It is published by Richard Dedekind in 1867.[2]
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- March 15 - Emil Adolf von Behring (d. 1917), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901.
- April 29 - Henri Poincaré (d. 1912), French mathematician
- June 13 - Charles Algernon Parsons (d. 1931), British inventor of the steam turbine.
- July 12 - George Eastman (d. 1932), photography pioneer.
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[edit] References
- ^ Frerichs, Ralph R. (2001-08-05). Who first discovered Vibrio cholera?. UCLA School of Public Health. Pacini's 1854 publication was titled "Osservazioni microscopiche e deduzioni patologiche sul cholera asiático" ("Microscopical observations and pathological deductions on cholera").
- ^ Riemann's Habilitationsschrift.
