1885 in science
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The year 1885 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- August 20 - Ernst Hartwig discovers S Andromedae, a supernova in the Andromeda galaxy, the first supernova discovered beyond the Milky Way.
[edit] Medicine
- July 6 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- August 1 - George de Hevesy (d. 1966), chemist Nobel laureate.
- October 7 - Niels Bohr (d. 1962), Danish physicist
- October 23 - Jan Czochralski (d. 1953), discoverer of the Czochralski process for growing crystals
- November 9 - Hermann Weyl (d. 1955), mathematician
[edit] Deaths
- June 12 - Fleeming Jenkin (b. 1833), engineer.
