1879 in science

The year 1879 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

See also: 1878 in science, other events of 1879, 1880 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Chemistry 2 Psychology 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

Chemistry

• Per Teodor Cleve discovered the elements holmium and thulium

Psychology

• Wilhelm Wundt creates the first laboratory of experimental psychology at the university of Leipzig.

Awards

• Copley Medal: Rudolf Clausius
• Wollaston Medal: Bernhard Studer

Births

• March 8 - Otto Hahn, German physicist who received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1968)
• May 28 - Milutin Milankovic, geophysicist (died 1958)

Deaths

• November 5 - James Clerk Maxwell, mathematician and physicist (* 1831)
• Peter Kozler, geographer and cartographer (* 1824)