1892 in science
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The year 1892 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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Chemistry
- William Ramsay discovers argon
Mathematics
- Georg Cantor shows there are different kinds of infinity and studies transfinite numbers
Awards
- Copley Medal: Rudolf Virchow
- Wollaston Medal for geology: Ferdinand von Richtofen
Births
- March 30 - Stefan Banach (d. 1945), great Polish mathematician.
- April 14 - Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (d. 1979), astronomer.
- August 15 - Louis-Victor de Broglie (d. 1987), physicist and winner 1929 of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- November 5 - J. B. S. Haldane (d. 1964), British geneticist.
- December 12 - Herman Potočnik Noordung (d. 1929), Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics.
Deaths
- January 2 - George Biddell Airy (b. 1801), astronomer.
- January 21 - John Couch Adams (b. 1819), mathematician.
- April 2 - Emin Pasha (b. 1840), explorer.
- December 18 - Richard Owen (b. 1804), anatomist and paleontologist.
