Overview of the events of 1843 in science
The year 1843 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Ada Lovelace , computing pioneer Plaque on Broom Bridge, Cabra, Dublin commemorating where William Rowan Hamilton inscribed his formula for quaternions Cyanotype photogram by Anna Atkins Physiology and medicine [ edit ] January 13 – David Ferrier (died 1928 ), Scottish neurologist .[ 20] May 6 – G. K. Gilbert (died 1918 ), American geologist . June 12 – David Gill (died 1914 ), Scottish astronomer . June 23 – Paul Heinrich von Groth (died 1927 ), German mineralogist . July 24 – William de Wiveleslie Abney (died 1920 ), English astronomer. August 17 – Alexandre Lacassagne (died 1924 ), French forensic scientist . November 30 – Martha Ripley (died 1912 ), American physician.[ 21] December 11 – Robert Koch (died 1910 ), German physician , famous for the discovery of the tubercle bacillus (1882 ) and the cholera bacillus (1883 ) and for his development of Koch's postulates ; awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905 Adelaida Lukanina (died 1908 ), Russian chemist . ^ Dumas (1843). Traité de Chimie, Appliquée aux Arts . 6 Paris: Bechet Jeune. p. 293. ^ "Carl Gustav Mosander - Oxford Reference" . www.oxfordreference.com . Retrieved 16 February 2020 . ^ Thoughts on the Mental Functions; being an attempt to treat metaphysics as a branch of the physiology of the nervous system . Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. 1843. ^ Cannon, Matthew (2014-11-03). "Alfred Bird: Egg-free custard inventor and chemist" . Birmingham Mail . Retrieved 2018-02-25 . ^ Fuegi, John; Francis, Jo (October–December 2003). "Lovelace & Babbage and the creation of the 1843 'notes' ". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing . 25 (4): 16–26. doi :10.1109/MAHC.2003.1253887 . S2CID 40077111 . ^ "Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace" . Archived from the original on 21 July 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-11 . ^ Menabrea, L. F. (1843). "Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage" . Scientific Memoirs . 3 . Archived from the original on 13 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-01 . ^ "William Rowan Hamilton Plaque" . Geograph . 2007. Retrieved 2011-03-08 . ^ Joule, J. P. (1843). "On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat" . Abstracts of the Papers Communicated to the Royal Society of London . 5 : 839. doi :10.1098/rspl.1843.0196 . ^ Brodie, Benjamin. "An account of a case in which a foreign body was lodged in the right bronchus." Paper to Royal Medical & Chirurgical Society 27 June 1843. ^ "The Contagiousness of puerperal fever". New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Surgery . ^ Smith, Denis (2001). London and the Thames Valley . London: Thomas Telford. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-7277-2876-0 . ^ "Royal Visit". The Bristol Mirror . 20 July 1843. pp. 1–2. ^ Meggs, Philip B. (1998). A History of Graphic Design (3rd ed.). Wiley. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-471-29198-5 . It receives U.S. patent 5,199 in 1847 and is placed in commercial use the same year. ^ Parr, Martin; Badger, Gerry (2004). The Photobook: a history, Volume I . London: Phaidon. ISBN 978-0-7148-4285-1 . ^ James, Christopher (2009). The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (2nd ed.). Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-1-4180-7372-5 . Retrieved 2009-08-11 . ^ "Photography. Cyanotype photograph. Anna Atkins (1799-1871)" . Seeing is Believing: 700 years of scientific and medical illustration . New York Public Library . 2001 [1843]. Retrieved 2009-08-11 . ^ Peres, Michael R. (2007). The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: Digital Imaging, Theory and Applications, History, and Science (4th ed.). Amsterdam; Boston: Elsevier/Focal Press. ISBN 978-0-240-80740-9 . ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 16 February 2020 . ^ Sherrington, C. S.; Bevan, Michael. "Ferrier, Sir David (1843–1928), neurologist" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/33117 . Retrieved 16 February 2020 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey ; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z . Taylor & Francis. p. 1102. ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7 . ^ Day, Lance; McNeil, Ian (11 September 2002). Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology . Routledge. p. 786. ISBN 978-1-134-65019-4 .