1877 in science

The year 1877 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

See also: 1876 in science, other events of 1877, 1878 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Medicine 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths

Medicine

• Patrick Manson studies animal carriers of infectious diseases

Awards

• Copley Medal: James Dwight Dana
• Wollaston Medal: Robert Mallet

Births

• September 2 - Frederick Soddy, physical chemist (died 1956)
• October 25 - Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (died 1957)
• Oswald Theodore Avery, bacteriologist (died 1955)
• Wilhelm Filchner, explorer (died 1957)
• Godfrey Harold Hardy, mathematician (died 1947)
• James Hopwood Jeans, mathematician and scientist (died 1946)

Deaths

• September 17 - William Fox Talbot, mathematician, physicist and chemist (born 1800)
• September 23 - Urbain Le Verrier, astronomer (born 1811)
• September 26 - Hermann Günther Grassmann, mathematician (born 1809)
• Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister,botanist (born 1824)