1890 in science
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The year 1890 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Medicine
- Discovery by Emil von Behring and Shibasabo Kitasato that an anti-toxin for immunizing people against diphtheria can be prepared by injecting diphtheria toxin into animals[1]
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: Simon Newcomb
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Crawford Williamson
[edit] Births
- December 20 - Jaroslav Heyrovský (d. 1967), chemist
- December 21 - Hermann Joseph Muller (d. 1967), geneticist.
[edit] Deaths
- February 3 - Christoph Heinrich Buys-Ballot (b. 1817), meteorologist.
- December 26 - Heinrich Schliemann (b. 1822), German archaeologist.
[edit] References
- ^ Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). "Immunotherapy: past, present and future" (PDF). Nature Medicine 9: 269–277.
