1879 in science
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The year 1879 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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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
Births
- February 22 - J. N. Brønsted (d. 1947), physical chemist.
- March 8 - Otto Hahn (d. 1968), German physicist who received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- March 14 - Albert Einstein (d. 1955), scientist and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics.
- May 28 - Milutin Milankovic (d. 1958), geophysicist.
Deaths
- April 16 - Peter Kozler (b. 1824), geographer and cartographer.
- November 5 - James Clerk Maxwell (b. 1831), mathematician and physicist.